Excubitors (redirect from Excubitores)
The Excubitors (Latin: excubitores or excubiti, lit. 'those out of bed', i.e. 'sentinels'; transcribed into Greek as ἐξκουβίτορες or ἐξκούβιτοι,...
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Eastern Roman army (section Excubitores)
were classified according to whether they were attached to the guard (excubitores and scholae), the field armies (palatini and comitatenses) or the border...
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one point they even formed part of the emperor's personal guard, the Excubitores. However, the population of Constantinople considered the Isaurians as...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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withdrew to his mansion at the Boraïdou quarter, where he assembled the excubitores and his own retainers (bucellarii), thus depriving Phocas of his main...
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