Alexios Mosele (admiral)
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] 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 Mosele drowned while trying to escape.[2]
References
- ^ Kazhdan 1991, p. 1416.
- ^ Treadgold 1997, pp. 477–478.
Sources
- Kazhdan, Alexander Petrovich, ed. (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. New York, New York and Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK].
- Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2630-2 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK].