Alexios Mosele (Greek: Ἀλέξιος Μωσηλέ), or Musele/Mousele (Greek: Μουσηλέ), was a Byzantine admiral (droungarios tou ploimou) in the early reign of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944).[1][2] He was killed in 922, leading a detachment of imperial marines along with the imperial tagmata under the domestikos ton scholon, Pothos Argyros, against the forces of the Bulgarian tsar, Simeon I (r. 893–927). The Byzantines were defeated at the Battle of Pegae, and during the subsequent flight, Mosele slipped and drowned while trying to board one of his warships.[2][3]
References[]
- ↑ Kazhdan 1991, p. 1416.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Guilland 1967, p. 191.
- ↑ Treadgold 1997, pp. 477–478.
Sources[]
- Kazhdan, Alexander, ed (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
- Guilland, Rodolphe (1967) (in French). Recherches sur les institutions byzantines, Tome II. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
- Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2. http://books.google.com/?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC.
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