Niketas 157 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Floruit | M IX |
| PmbZ No. | 3950A, 5479* |
| Titles | Epi tou eidikou sekretou (office) |
| Textual Sources | Genesii, Josephi, Regum Libri Quattuor, eds. A. Lesmüller-Werner and I. Thurn, CFHB 14 (Berlin, 1978) (history); Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history); Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history) |
Niketas 157 was the son of Konstantinos 42 Triphyllios, and brother of Georgios 230; he was the head of the eidikon sekreton when the emperor Basil I (Basilios 7) was annoyed with him and forced him to accept the tonsure and enter the priesthood (an event foretold to his father by an Arab prophetess, Anonyma 6) (Νικήτᾳ υἱῷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἐπὶ τοῦ εἰδικοῦ σεκρέτου καθηγουμέμῳ): Genesius III 15, cf. Theoph. Cont. III 27 (p. 122), Ps.-Symeon 635 (the sons of Konstantinos 42; their family name was Triphyllios; like their father they became clergy during the reign of Basil I (Basilios 7); the fact was supposedly foretold to the emperor Theophilos 5 by an Arabian prophetess, Anonyma 6).
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