Poupakes, Turk in service of Manuel I E / M XII
Πουπάκης (Poupakes 17001)
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- He was the personal bodyguard of Ioannes 293
- δορυφορῶν τὸν μέγαν δομέστικον. Niketas Choniates, Historia 83.85
- A Byzantine soldier of Turkish birth, but otherwise brave and very energetic
- τινα τῶν ῾Ρωμαίων στρατιωτῶν, Πέρσην μὲν τὸ γένος, ἀνδρεῖον δὲ ἄλλως καὶ πολὺ τὸ δραστήριον ἔχοντα. Kinnamos 48.2-3