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NICEPHORUS III

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 648 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICEPHORUS III . (Botaniates), See also:

emperor Io78-1081, belonged to a See also:family which claimed descent from the See also:Roman Fabii and See also:rose to be See also:commander of the troops in See also:Asia. He revolted in Io78 from See also:Michael VII., and with the connivance of the See also:Turks marched upon See also:Nicaea, where he assumed the See also:purple. In See also:face of another rebellious See also:general, Nicephorus See also:Bryennius, his See also:election was ratified by the See also:aristocracy and See also:clergy. With the help of Alexius Cornnenus he drove out of the See also:field Bryennius and other rivals, but failed to clear the invading Turks out of Asia See also:Minor. Nicephorus ultimately quarrelled with Alexius, who used his See also:influence with the.See also:army to depose the emperor and banish him to a monastery. In the years of his reign he had entirely given himself over to debauchery. See See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall (ed. See also:Bury, 1896) ; See also:Finlay, Hist. of See also:Greece; G.' Schlumberger, Nicephore See also:Phocas (See also:Paris, 189o); K. Leonardt, Kaiser Nicephorus H. (See also:Halle, 1887).

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