Nikephoros Phokas the elder

A successful general

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 895/6, or around 912.

Place of Death: unknown.

The dates are given by the PmbZO. Kazhdan gives around 900.

Relationships

Father: Phokas.

This relationship is given by Kazhdan and by the PmbZO.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

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

Leon (born between 875 and 880 - died after August 919) married a sister of parakoimenos Konstantinos.

Bardas (born late 870s - died 969)

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 3 February 2018]. “Nikephoros”, Personenkennziffer 25545