Maniakes 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M IX |
PmbZ No. | 3962 |
Locations | Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
Titles | Droungarios of the Vigla (office) |
Textual Sources | Georgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history); Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle) |
Maniakes 1 was droungarios of the Vigla (ὁ δρουγγάριος τῆς Βίγλας) when Theoktistos 3 was murdered by Bardas 5, Damianos 2 and Theophanes 7; he protested at first against the mistreatment of Theoktistos 3 but did not interfere when told that the emperor approved: Leo Gramm. 236, Georg. Mon. Cont. 822. The date was 856.
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