The Hikanatoi (Greek: Ἱκανάτοι, lit. 'The Able Ones'), sometimes Latinized as Hicanati, were one of the Byzantine tagmata, the elite guard units based near the imperial capital of Constantinople. Founded in the early 9th century, it survived until the late 11th century.
The Hikanatoi (Greek: Ἱκανάτοι, lit. 'The Able Ones'), sometimes Latinized as Hicanati, were one of the Byzantine tagmata, the elite guard units based...
886, Basil discovered and punished a conspiracy by the domestic of the Hikanatoi John Kourkouas the Elder and many other officials. In this conspiracy...
appointed nominal commander of the new corps of imperial guards, the Hikanatoi. He was forcibly castrated (and thus made ineligible for becoming emperor...
to the civilian bureaucracy. John Kourkouas (9th c.), Domestic of the Hikanatoi regiment and conspirator against Basil I John Kourkouas (10th c.), grandson...
Hikanatissēs), a name perhaps derived from the imperial tagma of the Hikanatoi. The gate marked the eastern end of the Amalfitan quarter of the city...
Acheloos in 917. His father Maroules had been Domestic of the tagma of the Hikanatoi. John Skylitzes describes him as a valiant and distinguished warrior....
camp, relaying the Emperor's orders, and guarding prisoners of war. the Hikanatoi (Gr. Ἱκανάτοι, "the Able Ones"), established by Emperor Nicephorus I in...
modern sources name Nikephoros I instead), and became domestic of the Hikanatoi under Nikephoros. He was taken captive at the Battle of Pliska, becoming...
had been commander (domestikos) of the elite regiment (tagma) of the Hikanatoi. Sometime before 975, his province was extended and he was also given...
hierarchy, ahead of the domestikoi of the guard regiments (tagmata) of the Hikanatoi and the Noumeroi, as well as of the various chartoularioi (civil department...
in the mid-8th century, four of them, the Scholai, the Exkoubitoi, the Hikanatoi and the Noumeroi, as well as, uniquely, the thema of the Optimatoi, were...
grandson of John Kourkouas the Elder, who served as commander of the Hikanatoi regiment and conspired against Emperor Basil I (r. 867–886) in the 870s...
"dynatoi"). John's namesake grandfather had been a commander of the elite Hikanatoi regiment (tagma) under Emperor Basil I (r. 867–886); John's brother Theophilos...
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