Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (born 1045)

Nikephoros Melissenos

Usurper of the Byzantine Empire

Nikephoros Melissenos, Latinized as Nicephorus Melissenus, was a Byzantine general and aristocrat. Of distinguished lineage, he served as a governor and general in the Balkans and Asia Minor in the 1060s. In the turbulent period after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, when…