Maybe THE Philaretos Brachamios (later a Kuropaletes and Stratopedarches of
Anatolia, the last
Byzantine general in those areas, ca. 1078-1084 AD.) ?
Wikipedia:
Philaretos Brachamios (Greek: Φιλάρετος Βραχάμιος;
Armenian: Փիլարտոս Վարաժնունի, Pilartos Varajnuni; Latin: Philaretus Brachamius) was a distinguished
Byzantine general and warlord of
Armenian heritage. Philaretos is testified on
seals as taxiarches (commander of an infantry regiment), as well as
protospatharios and topoteretes (deputy commander) of the Tagmata of
Cappadocia, then as magister and doux (duke), and finally as kuropalates and doux. He held a high command in the army of
Romanus IV Diogenes. After the Battle of Manzikert (1071), he commanded the forces of the fortress Romanopolis. As the only remaining
Byzantine general in the southeast he established a
quasi-autonomous realm, which stretched from
Cilicia to Edessa. The core of
his army was composed of 8,000 "Franks" (Normans) under Raimbaud. In 1078, at the beginning of the rule of
Nicephorus III Botaniates, he became duke of
Antioch, which included Edessa. Several
seals testify him as
megas domestikos and protokuropalates, then
sebastos, then even protosebastos. In December 1084, he lost
Antioch to Suleiman I,
Sultan of Rum. In 1087, Edessa fell to Malik Shah and Philaretos escaped back to the fortress of Germanicia. However, some sources indicate that he died in 1086. He was the last well-known Scholen Domestikos of
Anatolia.
His sons handed Germanicia to the First Crusade in 1098.