Leo Phokas the Younger
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Leo Phokas or Phocas (
John Tzimiskes
.
Leo was the younger son of
Sayf al-Daula, whose army had invaded Byzantine Asia Minor, made good progress, and was retiring laden with booty and prisoners. Leo waylaid him in a rocky defile, and destroyed most of the Arab army, while Sayf al-Daula barely managed to flee. Due to his record of successful service in the Byzantine-Arab frontier, he has been suggested as the possible author of the treatise De velitatione bellica
("On skirmishing warfare").
When Nikephoros ascended the throne in 963, Leo was named Prote and blinded. The date of his death is unknown.
Leo was the father of
Otto II's wife Theophanu
.
Sources
- ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- ISBN 978-0-88402-324-1
- ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.