Nikephoros I
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Gender | Male |
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Born | Pisidia |
Died | Pliska |
Bulgaria | |
July 26 | |
811 AD | |
Pliska | |
Bulgaria | |
Parents | Theophano of Athens |
Successor | Staurakios |
Children | Staurakios |
Prokopia | |
Grandchildren | Staurakios |
Ignatios of Constantinople | |
Theophylact | |
Paul of Xeropotamou | |
Books | The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes: Progymnasmata from Twelfth-Century Byzantium |
Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium: The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople | |
Gifts in Abeyance: Last Poems, 1981-91 | |
The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople | |
Nicephori Archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani Opuscula historica | |
Reign | 31 October 802 – 26 July 811 |
Date of birth | January 1,5641 |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1347942 |
Nikephoros I Life story
Nikephoros I, also known as Nicephorus I, was the Byzantine emperor from 802 to 811. He began his career as genikos logothetēs under Empress Irene, but later overthrew her to seize the throne.