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Cubicularius, Hellenized as koubikoularios (Greek: κουβικουλάριος), was a title used for the eunuch chamberlains of the imperial palace in the later Roman Empire and in the Byzantine Empire. The feminine version, used for the ladies-in-waiting of the empresses, was koubikoularia (κουβικουλαρία).

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Cubicularius

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Cubicularius, Hellenized as koubikoularios (Greek: κουβικουλάριος), was a title used for the eunuch chamberlains of the imperial palace in the later Roman...

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Aurelius Zoticus

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Aurelius Zoticus (Greek: Αύρήλιος Ζωτικός; active c. 219 – 221) was a cubicularius and famous male lover of the young Roman emperor Elagabalus. His story...

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Gorgonius

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Νικομηδείας) was a Christian who was martyred in AD 304 alongside Peter Cubicularius and a certain Dorotheus at Nicomedia during the Diocletianic Persecution...

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Elagabalus

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Aurelius Zoticus is said by Dio to have been Elagabalus's lover and cubicularius (a non-administrative role), while the Augustan History says Zoticus...

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Gainas deposes anti-Gothic officials and has Eutropius, imperial advisor (cubicularius), executed. King Bahram IV dies after an 11-year reign. He is succeeded...

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Battle of Taginae

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allies, notably Lombards, Heruls, and Bulgars. The imperial chamberlain (cubicularius) Narses was appointed to command in mid 551. The following spring Narses...

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Saint Christopher

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months after construction began. The church inscriptions commemorate the cubicularius Euphemius, often the founder or builder as the architect or construction...

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Diocletian

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eunuchs Dorotheus and Gorgonius were executed. One individual, Peter Cubicularius, was stripped, raised high, and scourged. Salt and vinegar were poured...

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John the Laz

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romanized: ioane lazi; fl. 5th century) was a Laz eunuch official (cubicularius), monk and theologian of early Christianity and one of the key figures...

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Roman Catechism

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to Cardinal Fransoni and signed "Jeremias Donovan, sacerdos hibernus, cubicularius Gregorii XVI, P. M." There is another English translation by T. A. Buckley...

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Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy

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simple court rank. Koubikoularios (κουβικουλάριος) – From the Latin cubicularius, "chamberlain". Nipsistiarios (νιψιστιάριος), from Greek νίπτειν, "to...

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Battle of Kleidion

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siege of Strumitsa and retreat. On the return, the eloquence of the cubicularius Sergius convinced the defenders of Melnik to surrender, another heavy...

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March 12

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feast day: Alphege Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua) Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia Mura (McFeredach) Fina Maximilian of Tebessa...

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Alboin

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(arms bearer). According to Paul the queen then recruited the king's cubicularius (bedchamberlain), Peredeo, into the plot, after having seduced him. When...

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Chrysaphius

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have risen from among the ranks: according to Malalas, he was a mere cubicularius (servant of the imperial bedchamber); according to the Chronicon Paschale...

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Maria of Amnia

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In 794, Constantine had found a mistress in the person of Theodote, a cubicularius (lady-in-waiting) of his mother. In January, 795, Constantine divorced...

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390s

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Gainas deposes anti-Gothic officials and has Eutropius, imperial advisor (cubicularius), executed. King Bahram IV dies after an 11-year reign. He is succeeded...

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Ludovico Trevisan

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Eugene IV). Upon Condulmer's election as pope, Trevisan was made his cubicularius and scriptor of apostolic letters. He soon also became a canon of the...

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Parakoimomenos

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beginning, it was a modest office, given to those koubikoularioi (from Latin cubicularius, denoting the eunuch servants of the emperor's "sacred bedchamber" or...

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