Adralestos
{{Short description|10th century commander-in-chief of the Byzantine Army}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Adralestos
| native_name = Ἀδράλεστος
| native_name_lang = el
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| office = Domestic of the Schools
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| term_start = 920
| term_end = 921
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| predecessor = John Garidas
| successor = Pothos Argyros
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Adralestos ({{langx|el|Ἀδράλεστος}}) was the Domestic of the Schools (commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army) in the early years of the reign of Romanos I Lekapenos, with whom he was related by birth.{{harvnb|Kazhdan|Cutler|1991|p=1276}}{{sfn|Krsmanović|2003|loc=[http://asiaminor.ehw.gr/Forms/fLemmaBodyExtended.aspx?lemmaid=7766&boithimata_State=&kefalaia_State=#chapter_3 Chapter 3]}}{{sfn|PmbZ|loc=[https://www.degruyter.com/view/PMBZ/PMBZ12895 Eustathios Maleinos (#1788)]}}
Very little is known about him. He was apparently appointed to the post of Domestic after Romanos I's rise to the throne in 920, in succession to John Garidas, and held the post until his death later in 920 or in 921, as he is already mentioned as having died in 921. His successor was Pothos Argyros.{{sfn|PmbZ|loc=Adralestos (#20115)}}{{sfn|Guilland|1967|p=441}} His family is unknown. Rodolphe Guilland considered him an ancestor, likely grandfather, of Adralestos Diogenes, strategos of the Anatolic Theme in 970, but there is little concrete evidence to support this assumption other than the identical names.{{sfn|Guilland|1967|p=441}}{{sfn|PmbZ|loc=Adralestos Diogenes (#20118)}}
References
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Sources
- {{ODB|last=Kazhdan|first=Alexander|last2=Cutler|first2=Antony|title=Maleinos|page=1276}}
- {{cite encyclopedia|last=Krsmanović |first=Bojana |title=Maleinos Family |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World: Asia Minor |location=Athens|publisher=Foundation of the Hellenic World |url=http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=7766 |date=September 11, 2003 |access-date=24 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227152430/http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=7766 |archive-date=27 February 2012 }}
- {{Recherches sur les institutions byzantines | volume = I | chapter = Le Domestique des Scholes | pages = 426–468}}
- {{PMBZ | volume=online | url = http://www.degruyter.com/view/db/pmbz}}
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{{s-bef|before=John Garidas}}
{{s-ttl|title=Domestic of the Schools|years=ca. 920/1}}
{{s-aft|after=Pothos Argyros}}
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Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:Year of death uncertain