still do not know what means "Monomakh" and how this name appeared on the list of famous names Byzantium and Russia.But you can not deny the great importance of the media names for all of Eastern Christianity and our nation as a whole.
Occurrence names
What does "Monomakh"?Word Μονομάχος - Greek origin and literally translates as "Divine edinoborets" or "one with God."For the first time representatives of this family were known in Byzantium in the middle of the tenth century.The origin of this kind of output from the Armenian or Greek ancestors, and the hometown feel Dalassu on the Euphrates River.Among the Byzantine chronicles in the registers of officers, treasurers, judges, mediocre meets surname "Monomakh", which means a slow but steady ascent of members of this genus on the social ladder.
rulers of Byzantium
first emperor of the genus Monomakh was Constantine.The rulers of the Byzantine Empire, he became because of his wife Zoe, who chose her second husband's son Judge Constantine.Frivolous and voluptuous rulers rule the Byzantine Empire, together with his wife and her sister Theodora.
his reign was marked by several revolts organized and spontaneous riots, which, however, were quite successfully suppressed.In the capital of the state they were reorganized the judiciary and carried out some modernization.But mostly the reign of Constantine in the history associated with the church schism.
Monomakh What is Christianity?The first attempts to break away from Rome and become independent.The Council of Nicaea, held Constantine Monomakh, finally split of all Christians in the Orthodox and Catholics.Constantine was remembered and how quite successfully conducted foreign policy, for example, to effectively reflect the attacks of Kievan Rus Rus.
Vladimir Monomakh
son of Yaroslav the Wise, Vladimir Yaroslavich, marched against Byzantium in 1043 and was defeated by the troops of Constantine.In a sign of final reconciliation between the two states relative of the emperor Anna had married a Russian prince Vsevolod.From this marriage was born, Vladimir, to the reign of the family name, the remainder of his grandfather.
What does Monomakh for Russia?The first recognition of the state of Kievan Rus as an equal on the Status of the Byzantine Empire, the definition of the kind of Rurik princes as full of princes and expansion of international relations of the Russian state.
