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John Taronites (Sebastos) John Taronites (sebastos) John Taronites (sebastos). Wikipedia open wikipedia design. John Taronites (Greek: Ἰωάννης ΤαÏωνίτης) was a Byzantine aristocrat who served as provincial governor in the Balkans under his uncle, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Biography[edit]. John's father, the panhypersebastos Michael Taronites, belonged to the aristocratic family of the Taronitai, a clan of princely Armenian origin from Taron. In ca. John Taronites (sebastos). Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Category:Sebastoi&oldid=836537836". Only one is attested with certainty, Constantine Doukas, a sebastos, polemis further identifies two Doukas women as two of Michaels daughters. The first is a certain Theodora Doukaina, attested in an epigram as married to a Theodore, polemis considers her as the mother of Euphrosyne Doukaina, Michaels granddaughter, whose father was also named Theodore. English examples for "Taronites" - Gregory Taronites was an Armenian prince who became a senior Byzantine general. Michael Taronites, Alexios's brother-in-law, was first awarded this title and regarded as almost equal to a Caesar. Eight years earlier Samuel had defeated the governor of Thessalonica, Gregory Taronites. John Doukas was married around 1146 to a woman later known as Maria, a Taronitissa,[9] possibly daughter of John Taronites, pansebastos sebastos. The couple had at least two children: Maria (c.1154-1208/1217), married firstly to Amalric I of Jerusalem; from this marriage she had a daughter, the future Isabella I of Jerusalem and then married secondly to Balian of Ibelin, amongst the children produced from this marriage was John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut. John Taronites (Greek: Ἰωάννης ΤαÏωνίτης) was a Byzantine aristocrat who served as provincial governor in the Balkans under his uncle, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. John's father, the panhypersebastos Michael Taronites, belonged to the aristocratic family of the Taronitai, a clan of princely Armenian origin from Taron. In ca. 1061â“1063 he married Maria Komnene, the oldest daughter of the megas domestikos John Komnenos and Anna Dalassene, and oldest sister of Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081â“1118). John was Ioannes (Johannes) Taronites (Sebastos). From Rodovid EN. Person:396882. Jump to: navigation, search. Full Tree Descendants (Inventory). Lineage. Taronites. Sex. Male. Full name (at birth). Ioannes (Johannes) Taronites. Other last names. Sebastos. Parents. ♂ Michael Taronites (Protosebastos) [Taronites]. â™ Maria Komnene (Sister of Alexos I of Byzantium) [Komnenos]. Events. child birth: ♂ Michael Taronites [Taronites]. 1092 title: Duke of Skopje. Category:Taronites family. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Pages in category "Taronites family". The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more). Taronites. John Graham Gow J. Broward Culpepper The Complete Mozart Edition LMS diesel shunter 7051 Start Here https://www.jstor.org/stable/21126832218496 https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2F....
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