Byzantine generals

Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354 (1292–1383)

Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969

Byzantine Emperor

thumb|Detail of a dish depicting Aspar and his elder son Ardabur (consul 447)|Ardabur ( 434).

Byzantine military commander (c. 760–823)

Genoese captain and soldier (15th century)

Bardas (; died 21 April 866) was a Byzantine noble and high-ranking minister. As the brother of Empress Theodora, he rose to high office under Theophilos (. Although sidelined after Theophilos's death by Theodora and Theoktistos, in 855 he engineered Theoktistos's murder and became the de facto regent for his nephew, Michael III (). Rising to the rank of Caesar, he was the effective ruler of the Byzantine Empire for ten years, a period which saw military success, renewed diplomatic and missionary activity, and an intellectual revival that heralded the Macedonian Renaissance. He was assassinate

Mizizios or Mezezius (; or ) was an Armenian noble who served as a general of Byzantium, later usurping the Byzantine throne in Sicily from 668 to 669.

Byzantine general

late 11th-century Byzantine Empire usurper

Byzantine general and usurper

Byzantine co-emperor

Flavius Illus (; died 488) was a Roman general who played an important role in the reigns of the Eastern Emperors Zeno and Basiliscus.

Norman adventurer and Byzantine general

Byzantine general, brother of emperor Alexios I

Byzantine general

9th-century Byzantine military leader and aristocrat

Byzantine aristocrat and military leader, brother of Isaac I Komnenos

Neboulos () was a South Slavic military commander in the service of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian II (r. 685–695 and 705–711). Around 690, Neboulos was appointed commander a special military corps of about 30,000 men established by the Emperor. In 692/3, he and his corps joined in a major Byzantine campaign against the Umayyad Caliphate. However, in the Battle of Sebastopolis, Neboulos and about 20,000 of his men defected to the Arabs, allegedly bribed by the Arab commander Muhammad ibn Marwan. In retaliation, Justinian II disbanded the corps, executed or enslaved the remaining soldiers and

Bulgarian and Byzantine noble

Byzantine nobleman and heir apparent to Emperor Alexios III Angelos

Roman politician and general; consul 447

Flavius Armatus (died 477), also known as Harmatius, was an Eastern Roman military commander, magister militum under Emperors Leo I, Basiliscus and Zeno, and consul. He was instrumental in the rebellion of Basiliscus against Zeno, and in his subsequent fall.

Tribigild, also called Tarbigilus (; ; 399) was an Ostrogothic general whose rebellion against the Eastern Roman Empire precipitated a major political crisis during the reign of Emperor Arcadius.

prince of Armenia

Byzantine general

Byzantine general and noble

Roman consul (6th c.)

mid-11th century Byzantine general and noble

Byzantine co-emperor

Byzantine general and magister officiorum under Emperor Anastasius

Byzantine general and governor

Byzantine general and politician

Byzantine catapan of Italy

Byzantine catepan of Italy

Byzantine prince

aristocrat of the Empire of Trebizond

Byzantine general

consul 486

Byzantine nobleman

Theophobos () or Theophobus, originally Nasir (), Nasr (), or Nusayr (), was a commander of the Khurramites who converted to Christianity and entered Byzantine service under Emperor Theophilos (). Raised to high rank and married into the imperial family, Theophobos was given command of his fellow Khurramites and served under Theophilos in his wars against the Abbasid Caliphate in 837–838. After the Byzantines' defeat at the Battle of Anzen, he was proclaimed emperor by his own men, but did not pursue this claim. Instead he peacefully submitted to Theophilos in the next year and was apparently

Byzantine court official (died 800)

Tatzates or Tatzatios (, from Tačat) was a prominent Byzantine general of Armenian descent, who in 782 defected to the Abbasids and was appointed governor of Arminiya.

Byzantine prince (1091-1130/31)

Byzantine general

9th-century Byzantine general and noble

Byzantine nobleman and general

Nasar (), originally baptized Basil (), was a distinguished Byzantine military leader in the Byzantine–Arab conflicts of the latter half of the 9th century.

Droctulf (Droctulfus, Droctulfo, Drocton) was a Byzantine general of Suevic or Alemannic origin. According to Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum, he was raised among the Lombards, with whom he entered the Italian peninsula in 569. He eventually joined the Byzantine army to fight against them, becoming an important ally of both Emperor and Pope.

Byzantine general and aristocrat

5th century Eastern Roman Empire consul, diplomat and general

politician (482-498)

Byzantine general

Byzantine general

Catapan of Italy from May to September 1017

Byzantine general

Georgian general of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine general and Caesar

King of the Ghassanid Arabs from 569 to 581

Byzantine aristocrat and governor of Epirus and Thessaly