1043 (aged 44–45) Near lake Vegoritida, west of Thessaloniki
Allegiance
Byzantine Empire
George Maniakes (Greek: Γεώργιος Μανιάκης, transliterated as Georgios Maniaces, Maniakis, or Maniaches, Italian: Giorgio Maniace; died 1043) was a prominent general of the Byzantine Empire during the 11th century.[1][2][3] He was the catepan of Italy in 1042. He is known as Gyrgir in Scandinavian sagas. He is popularly said to have been extremely tall and well built, almost a giant.[4]
^Kaldellis, Anthony (2017-09-14). Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade. University of Oxford Press. pp. 161–163. ISBN 978-0-190-25322-6.
^Wolf, Kenneth Baxter (2016-11-11). Making History: The Normans and Their Historians in Eleventh-Century Italy. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 94–95. ISBN 978-1-5128-0901-5. But the Greek leader of the expedition, George Maniakes,...
^Kleinhenz, Christopher (2004). Medieval Italy : an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-135-94880-1. OCLC 62243072. In 1126 the relics of Saint Agatha were brought back to the city from Constantinople, where the Greek general George Maniakes had taken them a century earlier.
^Byzantino-Nordica 2004: Papers Presented at the International Symposium of Byzantine Studies Held on 7-11 May 2004 in Tartu, Estonia. Morgenstern Society. 2005. ISBN 9949112664.
GeorgeManiakes (Greek: Γεώργιος Μανιάκης, transliterated as Georgios Maniaces, Maniakis, or Maniaches, Italian: Giorgio Maniace; died 1043) was a prominent...
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between 1232 and 1240 by the Emperor Frederick II. It bears the name of GeorgeManiakes, the Byzantine general who besieged and took the city in 1038. Originally...
during a sally at the siege of Syracuse. When the Byzantine general GeorgeManiakes publicly humiliated the Salernitan leader, Arduin, the Lombards withdrew...
participated in the partial reconquest of Sicily from the Arabs under GeorgeManiakes in 1038. Here, they fought alongside Normans recently arrived in Italy...
as Georgius Cyprius; similarly George Hamartolos (d. 867), GeorgeManiakes (d. 1043), George Palaiologos (d 1118). In the case of modern Greek individuals...
including the future patriarch Michael Keroularios and the general GeorgeManiakes. Maniakes was promptly sent back to Southern Italy in order to contain the...
front, Michael and John ordered the general GeorgeManiakes to conquer the Emirate of Sicily. In 1038 Maniakes landed in southern Italy and soon captured...
the term Albanoi is related to groups which supported the revolt of GeorgeManiakes in 1042 and marched with him throughout the Balkans against the Byzantine...
It was the base for the Byzantine attempt to reconquer Sicily under GeorgeManiakes in the early 11th century. Consequently it was the least Arabicized...
under Muslim rule was Siculo-Arabic. In 1038, a Byzantine army under GeorgeManiakes crossed the strait of Messina. This army included a corps of Normans...
young general GeorgeManiakes was dispatched to Sicily, taking advantage of internal conflicts between the Kalbids and the Zirids. Maniakes quickly recaptured...
against the Muslims in Syria. Emperor Romanos III is defeated, but GeorgeManiakes captured Edessa. 1032–1036: Operations against renewed Muslim piratical...
Byzantines under the Greek general GeorgeManiakes invaded the island together with their Varangian and Norman mercenaries. Maniakes was killed in a Byzantine...
likely the daughter of George I. In August 1042 Constantine relieved the general GeorgeManiakes from his command in Italy, and Maniakes rebelled, declaring...
Summer – A Byzantine expeditionary force under GeorgeManiakes lands at Sicily, and defeats the Zirids. Maniakes begins his campaign to reconquer the island...
Byzantine expeditionary force to the Balkans against the rebellious GeorgeManiakes, governor of the Catepanate of Italy. The two armies meet near Thessaloniki...
former companion in arms of GeorgeManiakes when he was appointed to go to Apulia and Calabria and put down the revolts of Maniakes and of Argyrus in 1042...
Pechenegs in the Balkans and the Seljuk Turks in the East, the revolts of GeorgeManiakes and Leo Tornikios, and the Great Schism between the patriarchates of...
of the city.: 204 Exactly which parts Maniakes had taken control of are unclear – Skylitzes described Maniakes had taken possession of "three heavily...
France suffers from a famine (until 1033). The Byzantine general GeorgeManiakes captures Edessa from the Arab Muslims and stabilizes the eastern frontier...
carried GeorgeManiakes and his army to Sicily in 1038. After the disastrous desertions of the Normans, Salernitans and Varangians from Maniakes' army,...
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