Ioannes Bryennios, brother of usurper Nikephoros M / L XI
Ἰωάννης (BBÖ I.102, Skoulatos 86) (Ioannes 61)
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- Was murdered with a dagger while on his way out of the palace at Constantinople by the Varangian whose nose he had slit (Anonymus 129)
- μαχαίραις ἐθνικαῖς κατακόψας αὐτόν. Skylitzes Continuatus 181.9-18
- He was a gentle man and more sociable than anybody else
- καὶ γὰρ ἦν προσηνὴς ὁ ἀνὴρ καὶ εὐόμιλος εἴπερ τις ἄλλος. Bryennios 227.5-6
- Leader of the troops sent by Nikephoros 62 Bryennios to bring Constantinople to their side
- ὁ τῶν ταγμάτων ἔξαρχος ... τῶν ταγμάτων κατάρχων. Bryennios 235.10, 237.1