Leo Phokas

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Note: Leo Phokas (fl. 910s) was an early 10th-century Byzantine general of the noble Phokas clan. As Domestic of the Schools, he led a large-scale campaign against the Bulgarians in 917, but was heavily defeated. He then plotted to seize the throne, but was outmaneuvered however by the admiral Romanos Lekapenos. After Lekapenos seized control of the Empire, Leo led an unsuccessful revolt, and was captured and blinded.

Domestic of the Schools

The most important among them, the domestikos ton scholon ("Domestic of the Schools") would by the 10th century rise to be the commander-in-chief of the army following the Emperor, and the post would later in the same century be divided in two, with the domestikoi of the East (tes Anatoles) and of the West (tes Dyseos) commanding the military forces in Asia Minor and Europe (the Balkans) respectively.[4] In his capacity as the de facto commander-in-chief of the army, the domestikos ton scholon was replaced by the megas domestikos, while the ordinary domestikos became an honorary title awarded to regional governors until the early Palaiologan period (ca. 1320)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Phokas_the_Elder

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