The Rise of Basil the Macedonian | Byzantine History
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- The rise of Basil the Macedonian is a dark tale rife with betrayal and ambition: from humble origins, he would be catapulted to the heights of Byzantine society as one of the closest companions of the Emperor himself. But it was not Basil's in character - nor in his destiny - to play second fiddle to anyone; and if he had to stand on the bodies of his friends to reach the top, then so be it.
00:00 Intro
00:30 Dramatis Personae
03:15 Basil's Rise Begins
04:11 Ménage à Trois
05:28 Then Fall, Caesar!
07:08 Then There Were Two
08:55 Then There Was One
09:54 Outro
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Music used: (In Chronological Order)
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Gregorian Chant by Kevin MacLeod
Teller of the Tales by Kevin MacLeod
Heavy Heart by Kevin MacLeod
Impact Allegretto by Kevin MacLeod
Grave Blow by Kevin MacLeod
For Originz by Kevin MacLeod
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Use the Age of Justinian 555AD total war mod most accurate unit models. Awesome video though. Also, it would've been funny if you included the story of how Basil arrived in Constantinople and how a priest had a dream from a saint saying "a royal man would arrive at his doorsteps" So, he got up at night and found Basil sleeping at the steps and made him his holy brother. Also, another story his family was taken by the Bulgarians in a raid, the Bulgarian Khan impressed by a child Basil said: "Basil would rule a country one day". One more thing his dad was actually from Armenia questioning his Macedonian decent lol.
Thanks for the mod suggestion, I'll definitely take a look into that :)
As for the tales about Basil, I didn't want to include then since them seemed a bit too apocryphal and propaganda-ry.
@@Serapeum Fair, I just find it funny with his rise to power stories. Also, pls do a video on Belisarius's Vandalic/Gothic campaign would be an awesome video. And I would suggest using the Age of Belisarius mod to get the awesome battle shots. If you do ever plan on making that type of video. Soz I'm about to ramble
Also during Belisarius's Vandalic campaign, he used Hunnic horse archers "Huns". However, if you read Procopius's history of the Vandalic wars he calls them Massagetae, not Huns so pls mention the Roman term. Anyway, I'm new to your channel and I can't wait to see more videos definitely subscribing.
Don't believe all the stories, most are apocryphal.
And the Armenian descent is possible, but as far as I'm aware it's just a theory.
Since the empire had a strategy of moving peoples from a region to another to stabilize or repopulate it, that basil could be the descendant of Armenians.
Again, maybe. But only maybe.
It is suprising that the baby Basil was not eaten by the B'lgur Kahkan!
@@tuki8468 Basil's mother was Greek. Pankalo is not an Armenian name.
I think it’s one of the most interesting dynasties of the Byzantine Empire in my opinion
A channel like yours deserve to be at the front of Byzantine storytelling. Lovely video, to the point and being very precise on detail (loved how you show Basil I's conquests in southern Italy). But hey, if Bardas was a righteous man and got unjustly murdered before his crowing achievement in a conquest of Crete, then we shouldn't be surprised that you channel still does not have the attention it deserves. It's like Queen Christina of Sweden said: generally the greatest people end in disappointment, or are entirely forgotten. Lovely channel, please tell us if you are interested in starting a Patreon.
Thank you for your kind words! I don't have a Patreon yet, but I think I'll make one once I reach 10,000 subscribers - if you really want to support the channel, however, then you can become a UA-cam Member today. (The "Join" button should be on my channel's homepage.)
Hopefully I can prove Queen Christina wrong, lol
Your channel is truly something special, you go into such detail in describing the lives of the Emperors and what was happening around the empire. Keep up the amazing work, I'll probably donate a bit in a few weeks (have ad-blocker).
One of the greatest Roman emperors of the later Roman imperial age.
Another excellent video. Finally caught up on your catalogue. Keep it up, please.
The Romans reconquered Crete 100 years after Bardas and Michael III. Im really curious to see history would have played out and butterflied in that area had Bardas been successful in the 860's. Do you think the successes of the following 10th century could have been even greater or come at an earlier time as opposed to OTL?
Great video keep them coming!
Another excellent video!
Thank you for this, really informative!
Great video, always glad to see when you upload
Great channel
Binging your videos
Love your work
Excellent video.
Thanks :)
This guy deserves 100 times more subscribers than he has .
Wish we could do a DNA test on the bones if Leo and basil the 1st but sadly there graves were most likely robbed in the sack of 1204
Among the negative deeds of the 1204 sack of Constantinoupolis the tumbs of the Holy Apostles church were opened and all that that seemed to be gold was plundered.The squelets of the emperors were destroyed with the church of the holy Apostles by the Turks after their conquest of Constantinoupolis 1454 .On the reverse the conquest of 1204 permitted to save the holy shroud ,the icon of Gods mother the emperor held in his left hand during every military campain , the quadrige, to-day in Venice (San Marco basilica), and and and.: all precious historical things the Turks would have destroyed or melted to make more canons.
@@ezzovonachalm9815 😢
"Despite being both uneducated and illiterate, Basil was blessed with an icy intelligence and a dominant force of will." Politics never changes, does it?
Roman history is so awesome. Please keep exploring later Roman history.
Big Roman Emperor, Basil
Μὲγας Ῥωμαῖος Αὐτοκράτωρ
Magnus Imperator Romanus
Awesome video my guy, basil is one of my favourite romans emperor, yet it is sad that he and the eastern roman history in general is overlooked by westerners!
Yeah, I think this entire middle period of Byzantine history (roughly 717 to 963) is criminally overlooked.
So keep an eye out for my next few Byzantine-related videos, cuz they'll probably be focusing in this period
@@Serapeum I think that problem is that most folks do not even know that this historical timeframe is the Roman Empire. We ought to start calling it what it truly was, Roman. Byzantine Empire never existed. They were Roman and their culture was the evolution of Rome. Once this acknowledgment happens, then ever more people will give this historical period further attention.
I respect that.
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I didn't come here to read I came here to lead -Basil, probably
i am macedonian_ u r pronuencing the names Basil,& michael sooo wrong😆❤
great chanel,super videos🙏
he was Vasil The bugaro killer not Basil the macedonian
It doesn’t Make much sense to call him Armenian. He was born in Macedonia to a Greek mother and possibly an Armenian father. He himself was an ethnic Greek raised in Greek culture and ruled a Greek empire mostly comprised of ethnic Greeks
It does and it’s important as the theory also claims that he was decedent of Armenian Arsacid/Arshakuni royal family.
That’s not the case whilst the majority of people considered themselves to be Greek the majority the population would’ve derived from the Anatolians who themselves were not Greek in origin but rather Anatolian in origin of Greek culture. A conflation of the Anatolians to be Greeks and only speak Greek has made the appearance of the empire being majority Greek but it was not. Greeks would’ve been a minority but the cultural majority.
@@Yrkr785 You seem to have this idea that Greek is restricted to Greek peninsula. All cultures/ethnicities start tiny and expand. 99% of modern Chinese people are not descendants of the original ancient Chinese people in the tiny yellow river valley where Chinese originated. The vast majority of people who are universally considered Arabs today are not natives to the Arabian peninsula where Arabic originated. Greek culture originated in Aegean islands, then expanded to the Greek mainland, then Western Anatolia (1200BC), then Macedonia, then southern Italy, then Thrace, then most of central Anatolia, etc. over the course of thousands of years.
Ethnicity by definition is dynamic. That’s why we call the spread of it “assimilation”. Most native Anatolians were ethnic Greeks for most of their lifetime as an advanced civilization simply because they were assimilated into an expanding Greek civilization.
@@universetraveler5826 “seem to” is already starting with a false statement. I never made the claim Greeks were restricted to the Greek mainland. Greeks were present in Anatolia and other places but again they were a minority. A cultural shift towards Greek culture and language doesn’t change their ethnicity either. Arabs that are from North Africa or Lebanon are ethnically distinct from Arabs from the Arabian peninsula. Ethnicity is also not dynamic at all and is basic on the genetic origin of peoples. Most native Anatolians were not ethnic Greeks as their genetics did not change because they adopted Greek culture. There are whole lines of Roman dynasties who explicitly of the various ethnic groups from Anatolians despite their universal Greek identity. Ethnicity is not dynamic cultural identity has nothing to do with ethnicity, and you completely either misunderstood my original statement or intentionally misinterpreted it to make up a false statement I never said. Regardless I doubt you care about applying established academic criteria for ethnicity or having a truthful conversation. Try your fallacies on a different subject.
Well doesn’t really matter because the ruling descendants were probably from the other Emperor Michael III who is Greek. That’s because Emperor Leo was most likely his offspring as when he took power, he reburied the remains of Michael III to a Holy site instead of some monastery at the suburbs of Constantinople on the Asian side.
Hence the lineage of “Macedonian” house is most probably not really a Macedonian but Greek, including the famed Bulgar Slayer Basil II
I still think Basil and Michael were lovers.
Michael The Menage a Trois Roman Emperor
Orders Basil to marry his mistress Eudokia Ingerina and ignores his wife also called Eudokia but surnamed Decapolitissa
Emperor Michael III successor of Constantine The Great who was called Equal to Apostles and
The Two Eudokias one wife one mistress scandal
He needs to DNA test his son. 😂
Vasil was his name, Vasilije is a name. Basil is nothin and he was a Serb.
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Jeste brate...
Armenian Emperor
Most likely
"Basil I, called the Macedonian (Greek: Βασίλειος ὁ Μακεδών, Basíleios ō Makedṓn, 811 - 29 August 886), was a Byzantine Emperor who reigned from 867 to 886.
His ethnic origin is unknown and has been a subject of debate.
The name of his mother points to a GREEK ORIGIN ON HIS MATERNAL SIDE.[3][8] The general scholarly consensus is that Basil's father was "probably" of Armenian origin, and settled in Byzantine Thrace.[9] "
wiki/Basil_I
@@Serapeum From Mavrikios onwards all emperors were either Greek, either half-Greek or at the least totally Hellenized, otherwise they simply wouldn't be accepted as the rulers. By the end of late antiquity, in order to be accepted as a "Basileus Romaion" one had to 1) speak fluent Greek, 2) have Greco-roman cultural values and 3) be a Chalcedonian Christian. These three components together, made someone a "Romaios". Both the evidence and modern scholarship suggest that Basil most probably was of a mixed Greek (his mother was Greek) and Armenian ancestry. He can never be called simply an "Armenian" when he was a Greek-speaking Chalcedonian Christian who didn't follow the distinct Armenian brunch of Christianity, while there is no evidence he even spoke any Armenian at all..
@@vangelisskia214
Bournoutian, George (2002). A Concise History of the Armenian People. Mazda Publishers. p. 89. ISBN 9781568591414. ....the later Macedonian dynasty, according to most Byzantinists, was of Armenian origin as well. [...] Ironically, it was this same Armenian dynasty which was chiefly responsible for the breakup of the Bagratuni kingdom.
The important Macedonian dynasty was founded by Basil I (867-86), an Armenian.
Chahin, Mack. The Kingdom of Armenia: A History. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2001, p. 232 ISBN 0-7007-1452-9
The reasons for this stunning reversal of fortune are still disputed, though some credit is surely due to the much-maligned but effective rulers of the Isaurian dynasty , Leo III (r. 717-41) and Constantine V (r. 741-75), who stabilized the empire’s borders after the catastrophic losses of the seventh century. 7 Since the founder of the Macedonian dynasty, Basil I (r. 867-86), was a Thracian peasant of Armenian origin, the term “Macedonian dynasty” is something of a misnomer, but it is used so ubiquitously in secondary scholarship and in the sources themselves as well that is pointless to attempt to replace it with something else.
Chitwood, Zachary (2017). Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056. Cambridge University Press. p. 18. ISBN 9781107182561.
Alexander Vasiliev argues that "The majority of scholars consider Basil an Armenian who had settled in Macedonia, and speak of his dynasty as the Armenian dynasty. But in view of the fact that there were many Armenians and Slavs among the population of Macedonia, it might be correct to assume that Basil was of mixed Armeno-Slavonic origin."
Vasiliev, Alexander (1964). History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453, Volume 1. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 301. ISBN 9780299809256.
His father is widely considered to be of Armenian origin.
Whittow, Mark (1996). The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025. University of California Press. p. 201. ISBN 9780520204966. Four emperors - Leo V, Basil I, Romanos I and John Tzimiskes - seem to have been Armenian, as well as the empress Theodora, Theophilos' wife...”
Rosser, John Hutchins (2012). "Armenia". Historical Dictionary of Byzantium. Scarecrow Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780810875678. ...a number of important military leaders and civil administrators were Armenian, including emperors Leo V, Basil I, Romanos I Lekapenos, and John I Tzimiskes.”
Treadgold 1997, p. 455: "Though of Armenian stock, Basil was called the Macedonian because he had been born in the Theme of Macedonia...."
Evans, Helen C. (2018). "Armenians and Their Middle Age". Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 34. ISBN 9781588396600. The Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (r. 610-640) was the son of an Armenian... [...] In 867 Basil I (r. 867-886), whose father was also Armenian...”
That Basil I, the founder of the most brilliant dynasty of the Byzantine empire, was indeed Armenian and Armenian on both sides, can be regarded as an established fact."
Charanis 1963, p. 35.
The Macedonian dynasty ( 867 - 1056 ) marked the apogee of the medieval Byzantine Empire . Its founder, Basil, a peasant born in Macedonia but of Armenian descent
"Macedonian Dynasty." Oxford Reference.
starting with the Vita Basilii, let us work through those sources advertising an Armenian ancestry for Basil I in chronological order.
indication that Basil was of Armenian descent and that he came originally from Macedonia; in other words, he was a Balkan Armenian.
Greenwood, T. (2018). Basil I, Constantine VII and Armenian Literary Tradition in Byzantium. In T. Shawcross & I. Toth (Eds.), Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond (pp. 447-466). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108289993.023
The Byzantine emperor Basil I (ca. 812-886), also known as Basil the Macedonian, ruled from 867 to 886. Despite his unsavory rise to power, he was a gifted statesman who gave the empire new vigor and began its most durable dynasty.
Of obscure Armenian parentage, Basil was born in Thrace.
The Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 4 (1923). See also George Ostrogorsky, History of the Byzantine State (1940; trans. 1956; rev. ed. 1969); The Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 4 (2d ed. 1966), pt. 1, edited by J. M. Hussey; and Romilly Jenkins, Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries, A.D. 610-1071 (1966).
BASIL I. (d. 886), known as the "Macedonian", Roman emperor in the East, was born of a family of Armenian (not Slavonic) descent, settled in Macedonia.
Vita Basilii, by his grandson Constantine VII. (bk. v. of the Continuation of Theophanes, ed. Bonn); Genesius (ed. Bonn); Vita Euthymii, ed. De Boor (Berlin, 1888). Of the Arabic sources Tabari is the most important.
MODERN WoRKs. - Finlay, History of Greece, vol. ii. (Oxford, 1877); Gibbon, Decline and Fall, vols. v. and vi. (ed. Bury, London, 1898); Hergenrother, Photius, Patriarch von Constantinopel, vol. ii. (Regensburg, 1867). (J. B. B.)
Although he was technically of Armenian descent, Basil acquired the moniker “the Macedonian” because Armenia was in the theme of Macedonia at the time of Basil's birth around the year 811. peasants who were forcibly brought to Bulgaria in 813 under the Bulgar Kahn Krum.
Eldridge, Kelsey, "Byzantine Emperors and Old Testament Kings: Contextualizing the Paris Psalter as a Product of Ninth and Tenth Century Byzantine Imperial Ideology" (2011). Summer Research. Paper 131
@@vangelisskia214 Продолжатель Феофано не писал ,что Василий 1 армянин,не позорься,
Emperor Justinian was an lllyrian/ Dardan/ Albanian, and the Byzantium was an Illyrian Empire!
Emperor Constantin was an lllyrian/ Albanian, and the Byzantium was an Illyrian Empire!
Komnenians Dinasty was Illyrian/ Albanian!
Alexander the Great was Illyrian/Albanian!
The history must be rewritten!
your channle disgusts me. You are far too harsh on the Serbian elements of imperial relations.