Emperor Justinian I and his court, from the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna. The soldiers left, with the golden neck-torques typical of Byzantine guardsmen, are scholares.
The Scholae Palatinae (lit.'Palatine Schools'; Greek: Σχολαί, romanized: Scholai) were an elite military imperial guard unit, usually ascribed to the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great as a replacement for the equites singulares Augusti, the cavalry arm of the Praetorian Guard. The Scholae survived in Roman and later Byzantine service until they disappeared from the historical record in the late 11th century, during the reign of Alexios I Komnenos.
The ScholaePalatinae (lit. 'Palatine Schools'; Greek: Σχολαί, romanized: Scholai) were an elite military imperial guard unit, usually ascribed to the...
plural had an independent meaning. Next to the old kind of school, the ScholaePalatinae, established by Constantine the Great as a replacement to the Praetorian...
palace guard, after the rise of Constantine I, were also called the ScholaePalatinae for the same reason. In the Early Middle Ages the title became attached...
stratēgoi. The Schools (Latin: scholae; Greek: σχολαὶ, scholai) was the senior tagma, tracing their origin to the ScholaePalatinae established by Constantine...
or hired as a mercenary. Scholae – was used in the late Roman Empire to signify a unit of Imperial Guards. ScholaePalatinae – An elite troop of soldiers...
Constantine's rule, he was the head of the court secretariats and the scholaepalatinae, or imperial guard. After abolishing the senators' obligation to reside...
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Isaurian unit to obscurity. The emperor Constantine I created the ScholaePalatinae as an elite guards unit of about 6,000 soldiers, and to replace the...
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Revolts Wars Early Late Roman army East Roman army Foederati Bucellarii ScholaePalatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata...
Revolts Wars Early Late Roman army East Roman army Foederati Bucellarii ScholaePalatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata...
Blachernae just outside the Theodosian Walls. On 14 May 626, the ScholaePalatinae, an elite body of soldiers, protested in Hagia Sophia against a planned...
former imperial guards with a number of cavalry units termed the ScholaePalatinae. Paul K. Davis writes, "Constantine’s victory gave him total control...
among the warlike mountain tribe of the Isaurians, replaced the older ScholaePalatinae as the main imperial bodyguards. The Excubitors remained an active...
tunics. They were originally a select group of guards, drawn from the ScholaePalatinae. The title disappeared in the Komnenian period. Basilikos mandatōr...
Constantine I in ca. 312, and replaced as the imperial guard by the ScholaePalatinae. The two legions however continued to be counted among the senior...
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though that experience did not extend to large battles and sieges. The ScholaePalatinae units, which were more properly known as the Schola Protectores Domestici...
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official. The magister was first given command of the palace guard, the ScholaePalatinae. He was also appointed head of the palatine secretariats, divided...
(master of offices) and commander of the palace regiments of the ScholaePalatinae, a force of parade-ground display troops. By morning the event had...
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the imperial guard consisted of the units of the Excubitores and ScholaePalatinae, which by the late 7th century had declined to parade-ground troops...
Revolts Wars Early Late Roman army East Roman army Foederati Bucellarii ScholaePalatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata...
Revolts Wars Early Late Roman army East Roman army Foederati Bucellarii ScholaePalatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata...
Justinian served as a candidatus, one of 40 men selected from the scholaepalatinae to serve as the emperor's personal bodyguard. The chronicler John...
Gate, facing southwards, were the barracks of the palace guards, the ScholaePalatinae. After the barracks stood the reception hall of the 19 Accubita ("Nineteen...
Revolts Wars Early Late Roman army East Roman army Foederati Bucellarii ScholaePalatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata...
Revolts Wars Early Late Roman army East Roman army Foederati Bucellarii ScholaePalatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata...
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