The mystikos (Greek: μυστικός, "the secret one") was an important Byzantine office of the imperial chancery from the 9th through to the 15th centuries. Its initial role is unclear; he was probably the Byzantine emperor's private secretary. In time, the office also exercised judicial duties. It became an important fiscal official in the Komnenian period, and remained one of the highest-ranking state offices into the Palaiologan period as well.
Nicholas I Mystikos or Nicholas I Mysticus (Greek: Νικόλαος Μυστικός, Nikolaos I Mystikos; 852 – 11 May 925) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople...
under Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912), a mystikos became Patriarch of Constantinople: Nicholas I Mystikos. Trusted by the emperors, the mystikoi are...
regency council for Constantine. It was headed by the Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, the two magistroi John Eladas and Stephen, the rhaiktor John Lazanes,...
John Mystikos (Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Μυστικός; fl. ca. 924–946) was a Byzantine official, who served as the chief minister (paradynasteuon) of the empire in...
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conceal," and its derivative μυστικός, mystikos, meaning "an initiate." In the Hellenistic world, a "mystikos" was an initiate of a mystery religion....
first quarter of the 10th century, during the patriarchate of Nicholas I Mystikos. Al-Mas‘udi reports that they apostasized in 932, but this seems to have...
Montenegro Patriarchs of Constantinople, of which the best known are Nicholas Mystikos and Nicholas III Grammatikos Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903–1978) Pope...
display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. May 15 – Nicholas I Mystikos, twice the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and having reigned a...
references to the transcendental. A "mystikos" was an initiate of a mystery religion. In early Christianity the term "mystikos" referred to three dimensions...
Kauleas, who died in 901. Leo then promoted his own Imperial secretary (mystikos) Nicholas, but suspicions that he was involved in the failed assassination...
regencies, first by his mother, Zoe Karbonopsina, and Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, and from 919 by the admiral Romanos Lekapenos, who wedded his daughter...
empire in the hands of a regency council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos. Many residents of Constantinople did not recognize the young emperor and...
Baïana, who died in childbirth in 901. Although the Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos reluctantly baptized Constantine, he forbade the emperor from marrying...
families of Argyros and Mouseles, by recalling the deposed patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, and by putting an end to the conflict with the Papacy over the four marriages...
king (d. 932) Bořivoj I, duke of Bohemia (approximate date) Nicholas I Mystikos, Byzantine patriarch (d. 925) Yang Xingmi, Chinese governor (jiedushi)...
people by the Patriarch of Constantinople and Imperial regent Nicholas Mystikos outside the Byzantine capital. In its final expanded form, under the Second...
In the 12th century, after a period of decline, it was renovated by the mystikos Nikephoros, who rebuilt it and restored to it its confiscated estates with...
imperial documents; the kastrensios, a chamberlain in the palace; the mystikos, a private secretary; and the eidikos, a treasury official. Protonotarios...
Vlyssidou, Vassiliki N. (1997). "About the Deposition of Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos (907)". Byzantine Symmeikta (in Greek). 11: 23–36. Archived from the original...
Zoe Zaoutzaina. The evidence for this is a letter by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos in which he testifies that Leo VI had united his daughter to a Frank prince...
an army into Alan territory and, with the Byzantine patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, converted the Alans to Christianity. The conversion is documented in the...
mysteries", and the noun mýstēs (μύστης), which means "one initiated". The word mystikós (μυστικός), source of the English mystic, means "connected with the mysteries"...
Simeon I did not reply to a proposal of the Ecumenical Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos to betroth one of his daughters or sons to a progeny of Romanos I and sent...
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