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Also Known As Tribonianus
Born c.475 • Pamphylia? • Anatolia?
Died 545
Subjects Of Study jurisprudence • Code of Justinian • Codex Constitutionum • Institutes • Novels • Pandects
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Nicephorus II Phocas
Byzantine emperor
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Vacarius
Roman law scholar
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Dorotheus
Roman jurist
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Georg Friedrich Puchta
German jurist
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Ulpian
Roman jurist
Mosaic detail of Emperor Justinian I with a jeweled crown and halo, wearing ornate robes, from the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.
Justinian I
Byzantine emperor
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Irnerius
Italian legal scholar
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Martinus Gosia
Italian jurist
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Jacques Cujas
French jurist and scholar
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Narses
Syrian theologian
Heraclius
Heraclius
Byzantine emperor
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
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Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
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Basil II
Byzantine emperor
Belisarius
Belisarius
Byzantine general
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Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
Byzantine emperor
Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 1081–1118, detail of an illumination from a Greek manuscript; in the Vatican Library (Cod. Vat. Gr. 666).
Alexius I Comnenus
Byzantine emperor
Byzantine emperor
Basil I
Byzantine emperor
Theodora
Theodora
Byzantine empress [died 548]
Manuel I Comnenus
Manuel I Comnenus
Byzantine emperor