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Tarchaneiotes

Tarchaneiotes, feminine form Tarchaneiotissa (Ταρχανειώτισσα), also attested in the variant forms Trachaneiotes, Trachaniates, Tarchoniates, was the name of a Byzantine aristocratic family from Adrianople, active from the late 10th to the 14th century, mostly as military commanders. From the 15th century on some of its members were active in Italy, while a branch of the family migrated to Russia, where their name was russified to Trakhaniot (Траханиот). They are attested until the 17th century.

Notable members
Gregory Tarchaneiotes, first catepan of Italy in 998–1006 • Basil Tarchaneiotes, stratelates of the West in ca. 1057 • Joseph Tarchaneiotes (died 1074), general who played a dubious role in the Battle of Manzikert, later doux of AntiochJohn Tarchaneiotes, protos of the monastic community of Mount Athos in the early 12th century • Katakalon Tarchaneiotes, 11th-century Byzantine official • Nikephoros Tarchaneiotes (died before 1266), grand domestic of the Empire of Nicaea, married to Maria, the sister of Michael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1259–1282) • Andronikos Tarchaneiotes, son of Nikephoros, megas konostaulosJohn Tarchaneiotes, son of Nikephoros, leader of the Arsenites and general • Michael Tarchaneiotes (died 1284), son of Nikephoros, grand domestic from 1278 until his death, defeated the Angevins at BeratMichael Doukas Glabas Tarchaneiotes (ca. 1235 – after 1304), protostrator and one of the most distinguished Byzantine generals of the late 13th century • Tarchaneiotissa, whose first name is not known, spouse of Andronikos Asen, daughter of Glabas and his wife Maria Doukaina Komnene Palaiologina Branaina and great-great-grandmother of Byzantine emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI PalaiologosConstantine Tarchaneiotes, admiral in 1352 • Michael Tarchaniota Marullus (c. 1458–1500), Renaissance scholar in Italy • Yuri Trakhaniot, Muscovite ambassador to Milan in 1486 ==References==
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