Niketas Scholares (Greek: Νικήτας Σχολάρης, fl. 1341–1361), was a Byzantine Greek aristocrat and one of the leading officials of the Empire of Trebizond, eventually becoming megas doux. Niketas was a leader of the Scholarioi faction in Trebizond during the civil wars of the mid-14th century.
NiketasScholares (Greek: Νικήτας Σχολάρης, fl. 1341–1361), was a Byzantine Greek aristocrat and one of the leading officials of the Empire of Trebizond...
in Constantinople. However, in 1342 the leaders of the Scholarioi, NiketasScholares and Gregory Meitzomates, visited him there and persuaded the young...
arrived on July 30, accompanied by three Byzantine warships and NiketasScholares, captain-general of the Scholarioi, to be emperor and Irene's husband...
year a group of representatives of the Scholarioi faction, led by NiketasScholares and Gregory Meitzomates, arrived from Trebizond and convinced the...
Constantinople. This bid for the throne was supported by NiketasScholares, the leader of the powerful Scholares clan whom Michael had alienated. The bid was successful...
accession, Michael arrived in Trebizond, accompanied by the Scholarioi NiketasScholares and Gregory Meizomatis. The reason for his appearance was not actually...
defeat are not clear until 1341/2 when he fled to Constantinople with NiketasScholares and Gregory Meitzomates. There they recruited John Megas Komnenos...
of Niketas Byzantios [clarification needed] who formulated replies to letters on behalf of Emperor Michael III (842-867). Goddard sums up Niketas' view:...
of Wisconsin Press. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-299-80926-3. Niketas Choniates p. 368 van Dieten. Niketas Choniates p. 371-372 van Dieten. Byzantium's Balkan frontier:...
4324/9781315590547. ISBN 978-1-315-59054-7. Niketas Choniates, Annals, XIX. O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniatēs. Translated by Magoulias, Harry...
and mathematics. Anna was noted for her education by the medieval scholar, Niketas Choniates, who wrote that Anna "was ardently devoted to philosophy...
– after 1101), Anna Komnene (1083-1153), John Kinnamos (1143-1185) and Niketas Choniates (1155-1217) were some of the first to write about the Vlachs...
near nine years to construct. According to the Greek Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates, the Athena Promachos stood at around 30 feet (9.1 m) tall. It...
recorded in 869–870. His sons Antony and Niketas became patrikioi, with Antony serving as strategos of Hellas and Niketas possibly as admiral of the imperial...
former Caesares Nikephoros and Christopher, and their younger brothers Niketas, Anthimos and Eudokimos – who had been deposed, mutilated by their elder...
ships (according to the Annales Bertiniani), under the command of Admiral Niketas Ooryphas, to support Louis (who is besieging the city port of Bari) and...
succeeding the Byzantine throne, and relegated into monasteries. One of them, Niketas (renamed Ignatius), eventually becomes a patriarch of Constantinople. July...
manuscripts survive in the Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford). Niketas Choniates (viii.238, x.334) praised him as the most learned man of his...
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