The Excubitors (Latin: excubitores or excubiti, lit. 'those out of bed', i.e. 'sentinels'; transcribed into Greek as ἐξκουβίτορες or ἐξκούβιτοι,...

were classified according to whether they were attached to the guard (excubitores and scholae), the field armies (palatini and comitatenses) or the border...

one point they even formed part of the emperor's personal guard, the Excubitores. However, the population of Constantinople considered the Isaurians as...

and the accession of his uncle Justin I. The scholae, along with the excubitores, continued to exist in the 7th and early 8th centuries, although diminished...

wounds. He is succeeded by Michael II, the commander of the palace guard (excubitores). Leo's family (including his mother and his wife Theodosia) are exiled...

the early centuries, the imperial guard consisted of the units of the Excubitores and Scholae Palatinae, which by the late 7th century had declined to...

Justinian I (r. 527–565) and commander of the imperial bodyguard of the excubitores in circa 541–552. Nothing is known of his early life and career, but...

bodyguard, the excubitores, who tried to set upon him; his life was saved by the intervention of Justinian, the nephew of the excubitores' commander and...

from Thrace. He first appears in 583, as an officer (scribon) in the Excubitores, the imperial bodyguard, when he accompanied a Byzantine embassy to Bayan...

withdrew to his mansion at the Boraïdou quarter, where he assembled the excubitores and his own retainers (bucellarii), thus depriving Phocas of his main...