Nikephoros 7 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 790 (taq) / 790 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 5281 |
| Locations | Armeniakoi; Armeniakoi (officeplace) |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Strategos, Armeniakoi (office) |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
In September 790 Nikephoros 7 was patrikios and strategos of the thema of the Armeniakoi; when his troops refused to take an oath of loyalty to the empress Eirene 1 to the exclusion of Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8), the empress sent her agent Alexios 1 to bring them to heel, but they made Alexios 1 their leader, placed Nikephoros 7 under arrest and acclaimed Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8) alone as emperor: Theoph. AM 6283 (Νικηφόρον δὲ, τὸν πατρίκιον καὶ στρατηγὸν αὐτῶν, φρουρήσαντες). Later Alexios 1 was confirmed officially as strategos of the Armeniakoi.
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