Certainty: 2 Fifteen thousand Pechenegs equipped & sent to face Tughrul Beg's attack in the east Certainty: 2
Certainty: 2 Pecheneg troops soon rebelled, voted not to go east, & settled by the Danube Certainty: 2
Certainty: 2 Tyrach & baptised Pecheneg leaders, sent from Constantinople to pacify the others, joined their raids Certainty: 2
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Certainty: 2 Psellos wrote to Isaakios I as he set out against the Pechenegs, warning him of Selte
Psellos wrote a long, serious letter to Isaakios I after he set out against the Pechenegs, a conventional encomium, with three special points: (1) imaginative speculation why Selte had not followed other Pecheneg leaders in submitting (was he terrified or over-confident or desperate, or might the submission of other leaders, which should be carefully tested, be a part of his own deceitful plan?); (2) eloquent pleas to avoid even one Byzantine death in reaching Isaakios' goals; (3) reliance by Psellos on the empress Aikaterine to ease the pain of Isaakios' absence, with pleas that he should return soon
Certainty: 2 Campaign of Isaakios I against Pechenegs: all leaders but Selte submitted, & Selte was crushed Certainty: 2