Mavrikios Gavras

Mavrikios Gavras was the Avtokrator of Videssos; his rule took place some 1200 years after the empire was formed.

He was generally a capable and effective ruler. Occasionally he could be cruel, and wasn't immune from making bad decisions, but from all the things that newcomer Marcus Scaurus had heard about the empire, Videssos needed someone liked Mavrikios Gavras in charge.

The emperor was killed in a titanic battle against the Yezd in the western region of the empire. A member of a rival political family, the Sphrantzes, seized the throne in the capital.