Basil the chamberlain MAMIKONIAN 
Basil the chamberlain's father was Leo VI the Wise MAMIKONIAN and his mother was Zo Carbonopsina TZAUTZINA. His paternal grandparents were Basil I MAMIKONIAN and Eudocia Ingerina. He had a brother and a sister, named Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Anna of Byzantium. He had a half-sister named Helena. He died in 0985.General Notes
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exiled by Basil IIBasil THE CHAMBERLAIN(d. 985), eunuch minister of the Byzantine Macedonian dynasty.After the death of the emperor John I, Basil the Chamberlaincontrolled the throne for his two
grandnephews and co-emperorsConstantine and Basil II. After engineering his uncle'sdownfall, Basil II was finally able to assume his ownindependent rule. Related Propaedia TopicsThe eclipse of the
Roman Empire in the West and the developmentand Christianization of Germanic successor states (AD 395-c.750)Copyright (c) 1996 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. All RightsReserved
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