{"slug": "nikephoros-iii-botaneiates", "label": "Nikephoros III Botaneiates", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikephoros_III_Botaneiates", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41689", "qid": "Q41689", "description": "Byzantine emperor", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1002, 1081], "span_label": ["1002 CE", "1081 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "michael-vii-doukas", "label": "Michael VII Doukas", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "caesar-title", "label": "Caesar (title)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "anatolic-theme", "label": "Anatolic Theme", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bithynia", "label": "Bithynia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "galatia", "label": "Galatia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bosporus", "label": "Bosporus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "uskudar", "label": "Üsküdar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "balkans", "label": "Balkans", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1002, "year_label": "1002 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Nikephoros III, Byzantine emperor (d. 1081)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371270947#Births", "title": "1002", "revid": 1371270947, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1073, "year_label": "1073 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Emperor Michael VII Doukas sends a Byzantine army to deal with Seljuk raiding in Cappadocia, supported with a mixed force of Norman and French mercenary heavy cavalry under Roussel de Bailleul. Roussel re-conquers some territory in Galatia and declares it an independent Norman state. Michael, enraged, sends another army led by his uncle, Caesar John Doukas and the veteran General Nikephoros Botaneiates to deal with the rising of the Norman threat in Asia minor. But the Byzantines are defeated and John is captured. Roussel marches with a force (3,000 men) across Bithynia to the Bosporus and sacks Chrysopolis, near Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365270579#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1073", "revid": 1365270579, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1077, "year_label": "1077 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Fall – Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder, governor (doux) of the Theme of Dyrrhachium in the western Balkans, and Nikephoros Botaneiates, a general (strategos) of the Theme of Anatolics (modern Turkey), are proclaimed emperors by their troops. Emperor Michael VII Doukas offers Bryennios the title of caesar (co-emperor) if he submits to his rule, but Bryennios refuses. He sets out from Dyrrhachium, and marches towards Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303472978#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1077", "revid": 1303472978, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1078, "year_label": "1078 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Nikephoros Botaneiates, a Byzantine general (strategos) of the Theme of the Anatolics, revolts against Emperor Michael VII Doukas. With the support of the Seljuk Turks who provide him with troops, Nikephoros marches upon Nicaea (modern Turkey). He defeats the imperial army and proclaims himself emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1329585949#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1078", "revid": 1329585949, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1080, "year_label": "1080 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Nikephoros Melissenos, a Byzantine general and aristocrat, seizes control of what remains of Byzantine Asia Minor (modern Turkey), and proclaims himself emperor against Nikephoros III Botaneiates. Melissenos makes an alliance with Sultan Suleiman ibn Qutulmish and recruits many Turkish mercenaries to his army.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363303187#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1080", "revid": 1363303187, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1081, "year_label": "1081 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – Emperor Nikephoros III is forced to abdicate the throne, and retires to the Peribleptos monastery. He is succeeded by Alexios I Komnenos, who is crowned on April 5, as ruler of the Byzantine Empire. His brother-in-law Nikephoros Melissenos supports Alexios as new emperor, in exchange for the title of Caesar (co-emperor), and is appointed as commander of the Byzantine armies in the West.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1312347020#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1081", "revid": 1312347020, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1081, "year_label": "1081 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 10", "text": "December 10 – Nikephoros III, Byzantine emperor", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1312347020#Deaths", "title": "1081", "revid": 1312347020, "section": "Deaths"}}]}