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Persoonlijke gegevens Basil Mamikonean 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 812.
• Hij is overleden op 29 augustus 886, hij was toen 74 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Konstantinos Mamikonean en Pancalo Bagratina

Gezin van Basil Mamikonean

Kind(eren):

1. Bardas Mamikonean  835-867 

Notities over Basil Mamikonean

Basileios I Makedonios, basileus Rhomaiôn was an Armenian. Some say he was from T'il village in
Taron. He was of a peasant family that had settled in Macedonia, perhaps of Armenian origin. The
genealogy of Basil the Macedonian (if it be not the spurious offspring of pride and flattery)
exhibits a genuine picture of the revolution of the most illustrious families. The Arsacides, the
rivals of Rome, possessed the sceptre of the East near four hundred years: a younger branch of
these Parthian kings continued to reign in Armenia; and their royal descendants survived the
partition and servitude of that ancient monarchy. Two of these, Artabanus and Chlienes, escaped
or retired to the court of Leo the First: his bounty seated them in a safe and hospitable exile,
in the province of Macedonia: Adrianople was their final settlement. During several generations
they maintained the dignity of their birth; and their Roman patriotism rejected the tempting
offers of the Persian and Arabian powers, who recalled them to their native country. But their
splendor was insensibly clouded by time and poverty; and the father of Basil was reduced to a
small farm, which he cultivated with his own hands: yet he scorned to disgrace the blood of the
Arsacides by a plebeian alliance: his wife, a widow of Adrianople, was pleased to count among her
ancestors the great Constantine; and their royal infant was connected by some dark affinity of
lineage or country with the Macedonian Alexander. No sooner was he born, than the cradle of
Basil, his family, and his city, were swept away by an inundation of the Bulgarians: he was
educated a slave in a foreign land; and in this severe discipline, he acquired the hardiness of
body and flexibility of mind which promoted his future elevation. He was born between 826 and 835
in Thrace, Macedonia. He was the son of Konstantinos Mamikonean and Pancalo Bagrationi. He was a
handsome and physically powerful man who gained employment in influential official circles in
Constantinople and was fortunate enough to attract the imperial eye of the reigning emperor,
Michael III before 863. He married Maria (?) circa 863. He and Maria (?) were divorced in 865.6
He married Eudokia Ingerina, daughter of Inger the Scandanavian, before 866; His 2nd.He
associated with Thecla of Byzantium, daughter of Theophilius "the Unfortunate", basileus Rhomaiôn
and St. Theodora Mamikonean, circa 866; His mistress. He instigated the assassination of the
Emperor's uncle, Caesar Bardas, in 866.8,4 He instigated the assassination of Michael III on 24
September 867. Emperor, Byzantine Empire, between 24 September 867 and 29 August 886. He made
both his surving sons, Alexander and Leo, though he was cruelly biassed against his Leo,
co-emperors in 879. He died on 29 August 886. He died on the hunting field.

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