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Nicholas Mystikos

Patriarch of Constantinople

6 dated entries naming Nicholas Mystikos, drawn from 6 separate years between 852 CE and 914 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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9th century

  • 852Nicholas I Mystikos, Byzantine patriarch (d. 925)source

10th century

  • 901March 1 – Nicholas Mystikos, a layman close to Photios, becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.source
  • 907February 1 – Nicholas I Mystikos is deposed as Patriarch of Constanstinople, (having fallen out with the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI), and is replaced by Euthymius I Syncellus.source
  • 912Euthymius I is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople, and Nicholas Mystikos is restored.source
  • 913June 6 – Emperor Alexander III dies of exhaustion while playing the game tzykanion (Byzantine name for polo). He is succeeded by his 8-year-old nephew Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos ("born in the purple"), a son of the late emperor Leo VI (the Wise). The government is administered by a regency council composed of Constantine's mother, Empress Zoe Karbonopsina, Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos and his guardian John Eladas.source
  • 914Spring – Empress Zoe Karbonopsina leads a palace coup at Constantinople and, with the support of the magistros John Eladas, overthrows Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos as regent over her son, Emperor Constantine VII. She allows Nicholas to remain as patriarch, repudiates the title granted to Simeon I of Bulgaria (see 913) and nullifies the marriage plans (with a Bulgarian princess) made for her son by Nicholas.source

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