Bardas Phokas the elder

Events

Date of Birth: probably towards the end of the 870s.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by the PmbZO.

Date of Death: 969.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the PmbZO.

Relationships

Father: Nikephoros Phokas the elder.

This relationship is given by the PmbZO.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: a daughter of Eudokimos Maleinos.

This relationship is given by the PmbZO.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Nikephoros (II) Phokas (912-969), later Byzantine Emperor. Married (1) unknown; married (2) Theophanu, widow of Emperor Romanos II.

Leon Phokas (abt 915 - after 982)

Konstantinos Phokas

A daughter was the mother of Byzantine Emperor Ioannes Tzimiskes.

A daughter married Theodulos Parsakutenos.

References

Kazhdan, Alexander P. “Phokas” in the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 1991).

Krsmanović, Bojana. "Phokas family ", Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor URL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=10110> [accessed 10 February 2018]

Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Claudia Ludwig; Beate Zielke, and Thomas Pratsch. Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften [consulted 29 January 2018]. “Bardas”, Personenkennziffer 20769