Kourkouas (Byzantine family)

Kourkouas is the name of a Byzantine family of Armenian origin which made speak about it about 9th at the 11th centuries.

Jean Arméniaque

Domestic of Hicanates, originating in a small village of the topic of Arméniaques close to Tokat. Grandfather of the following. Patrice at the end of the reign of Basile I {{er}}, it put himself at the head of a plot. Discovered and stopped, it had the burst eyes. Its accomplices were bastonnés, mowed and exiled.

Jean Kourkouas

Grandson of the precedent, brother of Theophilus, it was informed by a relative, Christophe, métropolite of Gangra. Drongaire of the Day before under Constantin VII, in favor of Romain Lécapène, it helped it to seize the throne in 921 with the detriment of the Phocas. Domestic fact of Scholes, it put an end to a plot against the emperor in Chaldie. After many combat in Minor Asia, it seized Métilène in 934. It also cut down many Russians during the invasion of Igor of Kiev of 941. After having ordered the army 22 years, it was dislocated by the Roman Emperor to have caused jealousies when his/her Euphrôsynè daughter missed marrying the grandson of the sovereign. Father also of Romain Kourkouas. The protospathaire Manuel wrote its life in eight books.

Theophilus

Brother of Jean. Strategist in Mésopotamie, it gained there many victories over the Abbassides. It Maria her son with a girl of Gears Phocas the Old one.

Euphrôsynè

Girl of Jean the Old one. She failed to marry Romain, grandson of Romain Lécapène. This project put an end to the career of his/her father.

Romain the Old one

Wire of Jean the Old one. Patrice and strategist, it gained many victories over the enemies of Byzance in the East. In 963, he refused to betray Nicéphore II Phocas in spite of the promises, helping it on the contrary to arrive at the throne. His/her son was called Jean.

Jean the Young person

Wire of the precedent, it was killed by the Russians of Sviatoslav I {{er}} with the head office of Doristolon in 971.

Jean Ier Tzimiskès

Grandson of Theophilus. Born towards 925. Achieves young person many feats of arms. Wire of the sister of Nicéphore II Phocas, it helped it to seize the throne. Magistre, domestic with Scholès d' Orient, it still covered glory in Cilicie. The emperor came from there to be wary of him and dislocated it its functions but, with the complicity of the empress, he assassinated Nicéphore in December 969, seized the throne and exiled other Phocas with the assistance of the proèdre Basile. He married the sister of Romain II to legitimate his usurpation into 970. He seized the Danubian Bulgaria which the Russians held, all the Syria until Damas conquered. Its death, the January 10th 976 was perhaps the fact of the proèdre Basile which he suspected of diversions.

Romain the Young person

Was plugged under Constantin VIII because he was the husband of the sister of Bulgarian Prousianos which had revolted. Dernier Kourkouas influence.

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