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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Alexius I
		Under Michael VII Parapinaces (1071-1078) and Nicephorus III Botaniates (1078-1081) he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace and in Epirus (1071).
		The success of the Comneni roused the jealousy of Botaniates and his ministers, and the Comneni were almost compelled to take up arms in self- defence.
		Botaniates was forced to abdicate and retire to a monastery, and Isaac declined the crown in favour of his younger brother Alexius, who then became emperor in the 33rd year of his age.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/al/Alexius_I (402 words)

	Nikephoros III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nikephoros III Botaneiates or Nicephorus III Botaniates (Greek: Νικηφόρος Γ΄ Βοτανειάτης, Nikēphoros III Botaneiatēs), Byzantine emperor from 1078 to 1081, belonged to a family which claimed descent from the Roman Fabii and the Byzantine Phokas family.
		Nikephoros Botaneiates had served as general under Constantine IX and Romanos IV Diogenes, and under Michael VII Doukas he became governor of the Anatolic theme and commander of the troops in Asia.
		Nicephorus III is also a fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicephorus_III (538 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 514 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		118.) [W., NICE'PHORUS (Nt/o^rfpos Bpuej/i/ios), the accomplished husband of Anna Comnena, was born at Orestias in Macedonia in the middle of the eleventh century of the Christian aera.
		He was the son, or more probably the nephew, of another Nicephorus Bryennius, who is renowned in Byzantine history as one of the first generals of his time, and who, having revolted against the emperor Michael VII.
		Popular opinion was in favour of the usurper, but he had to contend with a third rival, Nicephorus Botaniates, who was supported by the aristocracy and clergy, and who succeeded in deposing Michael and in becoming recognized as emperor under the name of Nicephorus III.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0523.html (1118 words)

	Constantinople
		Nicephorus took the always unpopular but highly commendable course of maintaining a resolute neutrality between the image worshippers and the iconoclasts.
		Nicephorus fell in a Bulgarian campaign against the Bulgar Khan Krum, who after defeating him, had his skull lined with silver and used it as a drinking cup.
		The victorious general Nicephorus returned, married the widow, and associated himself on the throne with the infants after the precedent of Romanus I. He recovered Cyprus, and his armies overran half Syria.
	www.roman-empire.net /constant/constantinople.html (13388 words)

	Michael Jackson's Area: Alexius I Comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Under Michael VII Parapinaces (1071 – 1078) and Nicephorus III Botaniates (1078 – 1081) he was also emploуed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace and in Despotate of Epirus in 1071.
		The success of the Comnenus roused the jealousу of Botaniates and his ministers, and the Comneni were almost compelled to take up arms in self-defence.
		Botaniates was forced to abdicate and retire to a monasterу, and Isaac declined the crown in favour of his уounger brother Alexius, who then became emperor at the age of 33.
	en_list.of.state.leaders.in.1031.en.out-make.info (816 words)

	Nicephorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Nicephorus Byzantine writer and patriarch, 758-829 AD, author of a famous Stichometry.
		Nicephorus, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch 1084 - 1090
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicephorus (91 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1078 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bulgaria was then governed by Nicephorus Carentenus, a very competent marij who had taken proper measures for quelling the revolt, when he was prevented from carrying them out by the arrival of Damianus Dalassenus, who was sent to supersede him as governor.
		The ensuing struggle between Botaniates and Bryennius belongs to the history of the former.
		Michael was allowed to retire into a convent, and Botaniates had so little fear of his harmless character that he made him Archbishop of Ephesus, a post for which the ex-emperor was decidedly more fit than for the throne of Constantinople.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2186.html (961 words)

	Wikinfo \| Battle of Kleidion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Basil's general Nicephorus Xiphias (the strategos of Philippopolis) then took his forces around Mt. Belasitsa and ambushed the Bulgarians from behind, trapping them in the valley.
		In the confusion, thousands of Bulgarians were killed; according to the account of Byzantine historian John Skylitzes, Samuil was present at the battle and was able to escape only with the help of his son's horse.
		Botaniates was ambushed and killed by more Bulgarian raiders after the battle.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Battle_of_Kleidion&printable=yes (625 words)

	Rodolphe Guilland, "Les Eunuques dans l'Empire Byzantin" (English)
		The eunuch Nicephorus, not the same as the aforementioned eunuch Nicephorus, the former protovestiary of Constantine VIII (1025-1028) and titled proedrus, put on the monk's habit under the reign of Michael IV the Paphlagonian (1034-1041) and retired to the celebrated monastery of Stoudios (Cedr.
		In the expedition of 964, Nicephorus II Phocas sent the Byzantine fleet to Sicily under the command of the eunuch patrician Nicetas, navarchos or drungaire of the fleet, who was defeated and taken prisoner (Leo the Deacon 65-67; Cedr.
		Nicephorus Bryennius marched on Constantinople and was convinced that the senate would decide in his favor out of hatred for Nikephoritzes (Zonaras III 716; Attal.
	www.well.com /user/aquarius/guilland-eunuques.htm (13232 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR Mary of Alania
		After Michael's abdication she then went on to marry the usurping emperor Nicephorus III Botaniates (1078-1081) and was to aid Alexius and Isaac Comnenus in their coup against Nicephorus and retain great influence in the early part of Alexius' reign, though she was later involved in a conspiracy against him.
		The end of Michael's reign was punctuated by the rebellions of Roussel de Bailleul, Bryennius and the elderly general Nicephorus Botaniates, and Botaniates, the eventual winner, was proclaimed emperor on 7 January 1078.
		Botaniates abdicated on 1 April 1081, and Alexius, though the younger of the two brothers, become emperor.
	www.roman-emperors.org /maryal.htm (8454 words)

	Nicephorus Botaniates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nicephorus III Botaniates, Byzantine emperor 1078- 1081, belonged to a family which claimed descentfrom the Roman Fabii ; he roseto be commander of the troops in Asia.
		In 1078 he revolted against Michael VII, and with the connivance of the Seljuk Turks marched upon Nicaea,where he made himself emperor.
		In the years of his reign Nicephorus had entirely given himself overto debauchery.
	www.therfcc.org /nicephorus-botaniates-96062.html (156 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Anna Comnena: The Alexiad: Book II
		V Anna Dalassena, the mother of the Comneni, had lately managed to affiance the grandson of Botaniates to the daughter of Manuel, her eldest son; and now through fear of his tutor hearing of the scheme and divulging it to the emperor she formed a very good plan.
		Botaniates' grandson and his tutor were asleep meanwhile, for a separate house had been appointed to them.
		This man was perfectly well aware of all that had befallen Botaniates, and now either by divine inspiration or at the suggestion of the Caesar (for this, too, was whispered, as the Caesar had long been his friend on account of his high standard of virtue) he counselled the Emperor to abdicate.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad02.html (7875 words)

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		(Botaniates), emperor Io78-1081, belonged to a family which claimed descent from the Roman Fabii and rose to be commander of the troops in Asia.
		With the help of Alexius Cornnenus he drove out of the field Bryennius and other rivals, but failed to clear the invading Turks out of Asia Minor.
		Nicephorus ultimately quarrelled with Alexius, who used his influence with the.army to depose the emperor and banish him to a monastery.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=48242&locale=en (170 words)

	Nicaea
		Among its archbishops, of whom Le Quien (Oriens Christ., I, 639-56) names forty-six, those worthy or mention are Theognis, the first known bishop, a partisan of Arius at the council of 325; Anastasius, a sixth-century writer; Sts.
		Peter and Theophanes Graptos, two victims of the Iconoclasts in the ninth century; Ignatius, the biographer of the patriarch Tarasius and Nicephorus; Gregory Asbestus, former metropolitan of Syracuse and the consecrator of Photius; Eustratius, commentator on Aristotle and polemist under Alexius Comnenus; and Bessarion, afterwards cardinal.
		Captured by the Seljukids at an unknown date, perhaps subsequent to the revolt of Melissenus against Nicephorus Botaniates, it was afterwards ceded to the Turks by Alexius Comnenus.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/n/nicaea.html (570 words)

	Qwika - Michael VII
		These misfortunes, which were but partially retrieved by the suppression of a Bulgarian revolt (1073), caused widespread dissatisfaction.
		In 1078 two generals, Nicephorus Bryennius and Nicephorus Botaniates, simultaneously revolted.
		Michael resigned the throne with hardly a struggle and retired into a monastery.
	wikipedia.qwika.com /wiki/Michael_VII (184 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Anna Comnena: The Alexiad: Complete Text
		My lawful husband was the Caesar Nicephorus, a scion of the clan of the Bryennii, a man who far outshone his contemporaries by his surpassing beauty, his superior intelligence, and his accurate speech.
		IV Afterwards, the Emperor Nicephorus (Botaniates) who had now obtained the throne, sent him away again - to the West this time, against Nicephorus Bryennius, who was upseting the whole of the West by putting the crown on his own head, and proclaiming himself Emperor of the Romans.
		Not only Botaniates was disturbed by this news, but it also created a ferment in the home-army, and reduced the whole kingdom to despair; and, consequently, it was decided to dispatch my father, Alexius Comnenus, lately elected "Domestic of the Schools," against Bryennius with all available forces.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad00.html (18194 words)

	Alexius I Comnenus - Gurupedia
		Botaniates was forced to abdicate and retire to a
		The years were marked by persecution of the followers of the Paulician and Bogomil heresies -- one of his last acts was to burn Basilius, a Bogomil leader, with whom he had engaged in a theological controversy; by renewed struggles with the Turks (1110-
		He deserves the credit for having saved the Empire from a condition of anarchy and decay at a time when it was threatened on all sides by new dangers.
	www.gurupedia.com /a/al/alexius_i.htm (639 words)

	Nicephorus Bryennius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nicephorus Bryennius (1062 - 1137), Byzantine soldier, statesman and historian, was born at Orestias (Adrianople).
		His father, of the same name, had revolted against the feeble Michael VII,but had been defeated and deprived of his eyesight.
		The work has been described as rathera family chronicle than a history, the object of which was the glorification of the house of Comnenus.
	www.therfcc.org /nicephorus-bryennius-96060.html (474 words)

	► » Emperor Nicephorus III Botaneiates: Descendant of the Phokai ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Emperor Nicephorus III Botaneiates: Descendant of the Phokai ?
		as the sister of Nicephorus Botaneiates (through her daughter, NN Synadene, wife of Geza I of Hungary) is an ancestress of all Kings
		Botaniates (whose ancestry is praised in many places of his chronicle) was
	www.genealogy-info.org /Emperor-Nicephorus-III-Botaneiates-Descendant-of-the-Phokai--7565954.html (742 words)

	NICEPHORUS III - Online Information article about NICEPHORUS III
		Nicephorus ultimately quarrelled with Alexius, who used his See also:
		In the years of his reign he had entirely given himself over to debauchery.
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NEW_NUM/NICEPHORUS_III.html (291 words)

	The Battle of Manzikert
		As Botaniates advanced on Constantinople at the head of a Turkish army, Nicephorus Bryennius and Nicephorus Basiliacius launched separate and simultaneous revolts in the west.
		Botaniates then sent Alexius Comnenus with another army of Turks to defeat Bryennius and Basiliacius, however, when his own kinsman, Nicephorus Melissenus, revolted against Botaniates in 1081AD, Alexius refused to fight and instead usurped the throne himself.
		In 1078AD when Nicephorus Botaniates left his base in Nicea to claim the throne, he assigned the city along with Cyzicus, Nicomedia, Chalcedon and Chrysopolis to Suleyman to garrison and administer as his vassal.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/articles/markham.htm (10154 words)

	The emirate of Chaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		According to one account, Chaka (Chakan, Tzachas) was a member of the Chavuldur clan of the Oghuz who was taken prisoner by the Greeks while fighting independently of the Seljuk army in the early Turkish conquests of Anatolia.
		During his service to Emperor Nicephorus Botaniates, he learned Greek and eventually he attained both his freedom and a noble rank.
		When Alexius became emperor in 1081 however, Chaka was stripped of his rank and privileges.
	www.kanyak.com /chaka.html (505 words)

	Nicephorus III jerak.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nicephorus III Botaniates, Byzantine Empire List of Byzantine Emperors from 1078 to 1081, belonged to a family which claimed descent from the Roman Republic Fabii ; he rose to be commander of the troops in Asia.
		Nicephorus III is also a fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the XIV century in Harry Turtledove 's alternate history (fiction) novel Agent of Byzantium.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Balkan Latin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The name of "Vlachs" is an exonym that was used by Slavs to refer to all Romanized natives of the Balkans.
		Riant's critical discussion in Archives de l'Orient Latin, I, 56.) The conflict over the Investitures in 1076 compelled the pope to abandon his projects; the Emperors Nicephorus Botaniates and Alexius Comnenus were unfavourable to a religious union with Rome; finally war broke out between the Byzantine Empire and the Normans of the Two Sicilies.
		Having failed in all his attempts to induce the barons of the Latin Empire to undertake an expedition against Palestine, and understanding at last the cause of failure of the crusade in 1204, Innocent III resolved (1207) to organize a new crusade and to take no further notice of Constantinople.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Balkan-Latin (576 words)

	AncientCreations.com...Sharing The Experience of the Ancient World
		Nicephorus II (Nicephorus Phocas), was Byzantine Emperor from 963 until 969.
		The reign of Nicephorus III Botaniates is little more than a story of continuous military revolts in the disintegrating empire, which he inherited.
		Alexius Commenus was the emperor's most trusted general, and he did in fact put down two pretenders, also named Nicephorus.
	www.ancientcreations.com /byz/pendants6.asp (537 words)

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