Mikhael I TARONITES "protosebastos"

   Research Notes:

Died after 1094.

Nikeforos Bryennios records that "Manuel" (Comnenos) was captured by the Turks "cum duobus sororem suarum viris, Melisseno et Taronita". The Alexeiad records, in a passage dateable to 1081, that "Taronites who add married the emperor´s sister Maria" was created protosébastos and protovestarios by Emperor Alexios I, and "not long afterwards…promoted to the rank of panhypersébastos with the right to sit with the Cæsar". The Codinus Curopalatis records that Emperor Alexios awarded the title panhypersébastos to "Michaelem Taronitem sororis coniugem". The Alexeiad records that "Michael Taronites, his sister´s husband" was "also sent into exile" by the emperor, in a passage dateable to [1093/93], and his assets confiscated for alleged involvement in the plot of Nikeforos Diogenes against Emperor Alexios I. The list of obituaries of Empress Eirene Doukas's family records the death "12 Mar, monk Michael Eumathius", which Morris Bierbrier suggests may refer to Mikhael Taronites.

   Marriage Information:

Mikhael married Maria KOMNENE, daughter of Ioannes KOMNENOS Patrikios and Anna DALASSENE of Italy, in 1062. (Maria KOMNENE was born in 1045 and died on 18 Aug.)