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Leo Argyros (9th century)

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74:, and distinguished himself in the border wars against the Arabs and their Paulician allies. He also founded the monastery of Saint Elizabeth in his native Charsianon, where he was probably buried. He had at least one son, the general 225: 210: 75: 191: 47:
family, although it has been suggested on the basis of the family's onomastics that it descended from a certain
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aristocrat and general active in the middle of the 9th century, and the founder of the noble family of the
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Leo Argyros is the first attested member and progenitor of the
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Index

Greek
Byzantine
Argyroi
Argyros
patrikios
Charsianon
tourmarches
Michael III
Paulicians
Eustathios Argyros
Kazhdan 1991



Cheynet & Vannier 2003
Cheynet & Vannier 2003
"Les Argyroi"
doi
10.2298/ZRVI0340057C
ISSN
0584-9888
Kazhdan, Alexander
Kazhdan, Alexander
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
ISBN
0-19-504652-8
Categories
9th-century Byzantine military personnel
9th-century generals
Argyros family

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