Basil III Theodorokanos or Theodorocanus ( el, Βασίλειος Θεοδωροκάνος, it, Teodoro Cano) was the
Byzantine
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Catepan of Italy from February to the Spring of 1043. He was a
patrician and a former companion in arms of
George Maniakes when he was appointed to go to
Apulia and
Calabria and put down the revolts of Maniakes and of
Argyrus in 1042. In February 1043, he landed at
Bari. Argyrus and his
Normans
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tried to surround
Otranto, but the catepan's fleet blocked them. Maniakes, however, debarked for
Dyrrhachium with his army. Argyrus eventually made peace with the Greeks and Theodorokanos was replaced by
Eustathios Palatinos. Subsequently, he commanded the Byzantine fleet against the
Rus' raid in July 1043.
Sources
*Gay, Jules. ''L'Italie méridionale et l'empire Byzantin: Livre II''. Burt Franklin: New York, 1904.
*Chalandon, Ferdinand. ''Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile''.
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, 1907.
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11th-century deaths
11th-century catepans of Italy
Byzantine admirals
Year of birth unknown