Examples of using Doux in English and their translations into Serbian
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Theophylact Dalassenos, also a doux of Antioch.
The local commander doux Nikephoros Palaiologos, did not put up an effective defence against the more powerful Georgian force.
He had issue: Michael Alexios,megas doux.
Promoted to the rank of sebastos,he served as doux of Dyrrhachium from 1106 until after 1108.
Seal of Romanos Skleros, with the titles of proedros,stratopedarches of the East, and doux of Antioch.
Became megas doux, a certain Michael Phokas was stratopedarches in 1234, and another family member was metropolitan bishop of Philadelphia.[2].
The island was ruled by a doux or katepano.
The sole exception was George Monomachos, doux of Dyrrhachium under Nikephoros III Botaneiates(r. 1078-1081), but dismissed by Alexios I Komnenos(r. 1081-1118).[2].
He is known for his service as the military governor(doux) of Antioch in 996-998.
Appointed him, alongside his original post,as the first Byzantine governor(doux) of Antioch after the city fell to the Byzantine Empire in October 969.[2][3] About a year after the murder of Nikephoros II in December 969, Maleinos was transferred by his successor, John I Tzimiskes r.
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Bardas Phokas the Younger,the younger son of the kouropalates Leo and former doux of Chaldia, escaped and rose up in revolt in 970, but was defeated, tonsured and exiled to Chios, while in 971 Leo and his eldest son the patrikios Nikephoros were blinded and their property confiscated.[18] One member of the family had a different fate: Leo's daughter Sophia Phokaina had married Constantine Skleros, the brother of Bardas Skleros.
Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, after overthrowing Nikephoros III,made Nikephoros doux of Crete, and made him a general.
Unlike usage in Western Europe or Central Europe, as well as in various Slavic lands from Central to North-East Europe, where analogy between Grand Duke and Grand Prince was significant, with both titles corresponding to sovereign lower than King but higher than Duke,in Bosnia title Grand Duke corresponded more to Byzantine military title megas doux.
After being recalled to Constantinople in 1092,John was appointed to the post of megas doux, i.e. commander-in-chief of the Byzantine navy.
In the 1060s and 1070s, members of the family, whose relation to the magistros Damian and his sons is unclear,served primarily as senior generals in the Balkans, like the doux of Skopje Damian in 1073 or the doux of Thessalonica Theodore in circa 1062.[1][11] The family became most notable, however, through the marriage of the ambitious and capable Anna Dalassene(the great-granddaughter, on her mother's side, of the magistros Damian), to John Komnenos, the younger brother of the general and emperor Isaac I Komnenos r.
Two of his sons, who accompanied Dalassenos, were taken captive to Cairo, where they remained for ten years, while Stephen of Taron somewhat dubiously reports that one of his sons was killed.[6][8]Damian Dalassenos was succeeded as doux of Antioch by Nikephoros Ouranos.[11].
His mother, Maria, belonged to the noble family of the Philanthropenoi, which rose to prominence in the latter half of the 13th century.[1]She was the daughter of prōtostratōr and megas doux Alexios Doukas Philanthropenos, after whom Alexios was named.[3] On his father's side, Alexios was also closely related to the imperial family of the Palaiologoi, through his grandmother, Martha Palaiologina, a sister of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos r.
The death of Tzimiskes in 976 saw yet another change in the family's standing: the powerful parakoimomenos, Basil Lekapenos, who assumed the tutelage of the young emperor Basil II(r. 976-1025), regarded Bardas Skleros as a threatto the new regime, and demoted him to doux of Mesopotamia.
Constantine's career between 1008 and 1024 is unknown, but historians speculate he probably held a succession of military commands.[1][6] He reappears in spring 1024,when he held his father's old post as doux of Antioch, with the rank of patrikios, the Empire's senior honorific title, which was limited to a small number of holders.
Skleros renewed his resistance against Basil II for a few months, but eventually was reconciled with the emperor, honoured with the title of kouropalates and allowed to retire with his brother to Didymoteichon.[1][15][18] The fate of his son Romanos Skleros is unclear: he remained in active military service,and W. Seibt suggested that he served as doux of Antioch, but the post was occupied at the time by Michael Bourtzes.
The conflict did not break out immediately, but both sides settled in what the historian Mark Whittow terms a"cold war".[7] In 985, the emperor moved first by sacking or demoting a number of eastern generals loyalto the Phokas clan: Bardas Phokas himself was demoted to doux of Antioch and Eustathios Maleinos was discharged from the army.
Took an active interest in the defence of the Anatolian possessions of the Byzantine Empire against the encroaching Turkic emirates in the early 1290s: hoping to re-establish the akritai, he settled refugees from Venetian-held Crete in military colonies along the border andappointed Alexios as doux of the Thracesian theme, awarding him the high court title of pinkernēs.[2][5][6].