Tyrach, Pecheneg chieftain in 1048, also known as Tirakh or Tirek, whose quarrel with his military commander
Ioannes Kegen Ioannes Kegen was a Pecheneg military commander who served under khan Tyrach in 1048, whose quarrel led to the Pecheneg revolt of 1048-1053. Kegen and his followers took refuge in Paristrion and appealed to Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monoma ...
led to the
Pecheneg revolt of 1048–1053. Kegen and his followers relocated to
Paristrion
Paristrion ( el, Παρίστριον, lit=beside the Ister), or Paradounabon/Paradounabis (), which is preferred in official documents, was a Byzantine province covering the southern bank of the Lower Danube (Moesia Inferior) in the 11th and 12t ...
. With the blessing of emperor Constantine IX Manomachos, Kegen was to protect a sector of the empire from invasion, but continued to harass Tyrach. Tyrach responded by a massive invasion of Byzantium, but, once defeated, was allowed keep his army to aid in defending the empire against
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incursions. Tyrach instead turned to rebellion and was arrested. Kegen was sent to replace him, but upon rumors of insurrection, he was also arrested. The emperor again turned to Tyrach to lead the Pecheneg, but instead rebelled and was defeated at a decisive battle at
Adrianople
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in 1050 where he presumably died.
[Charanis, Peter (1969).]
Chapter VI. The Byzantine Empire in the Eleventh Century
" In Setton, Kenneth M.; Baldwin, Marshall W. (eds.). ''A History of the Crusades: I. The First Hundred Years''. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 183–185.
References
* Baldwin, Marshall W., and Setton, Kenneth M, ''A History of the Crusades: Volume One, The First Hundred Years'', The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1969
* Kaldellis, Anthony
(Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017, pp. 193, 199-200
* Kazhdan, Alexander P., Editor, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium'', Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991, pp. 1118-1119, 1613-1614
Pechenegs
People of the Byzantine–Pecheneg wars
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