Ruler · 1001 – 1081

Nikephoros III Botaneiates

Lived 1001 – 1081; military personnel. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 1078 – 1081.

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Lived: 1001 – 1081; 80 years
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: deposed or killed; Kokkonen & Sundell

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 84th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

80 before

Michael VII Doukas1067 – 1078

Andronikos Doukas1068 – 1070

Romanos IV Diogenes1068 – 1071

Nikephoros III Botaneiates1078 – 1081

Alexios I Komnenos1081 – 1118

John II Komnenos1118 – 1143

Manuel I Komnenos1143 – 1180

26 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1078 – 1081 · 3 years · came to it aged 77

Came to it: seized power
Left it: deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell: by others

Nikephoros declared himself emperor shortly after, on 2 July/October 1077, mobilizing an army of native troops and Turkish mercenaries.

He captured Constantinople on 1 April and arrested Nikephoros, who abdicated and became a monk in the Monastery of Peribleptus.

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