Tatikios

Tatikios or Taticius (Greek: Τατίκιος, died after 1099) was a Byzantine general during the reign of Alexius I Comnenus. His name is also rendered as Tetigus, Tatizius, Tatitius, Tatic, or Tetig.

His father was a "Saracen", probably meaning a Turk, who was captured by Alexius' father John Comnenus and served as a slave in the Comnenus household. Tatikios and Alexius grew up together, and he is described as an oikogenes of Alexius (that is, "from the same house").

In 1078, before Alexius was emperor, he accompanied Alexius in battle against his rival Nicephorus Basilacius, and discovered Basilacius' plans for an ambush. When Alexius became emperor in 1081 he held the office of megas primikerios in the imperial household. Later that year he commanded the "Turks living around Ochrida", perhaps Hungarians at the Battle of Dyrrhachium against Robert Guiscard.

In 1086 Tatikios was sent to Nicaea in an attempt to recapture it from the Seljuks; he was forced to retreat when he learned that Seljuk reinforcements were on their way. Alexius sent Tatikios back with naval assistance from Manuel Boutoumites, but although he was able to defeat Abu'l Qasim, the governor of the city, in Bithynia, he could not recapture the city. At the end of the year Tatikios was recalled and sent to fight the Pechenegs, who were assisting the heretical Manichaeans revolt against Alexius, near Philippopolis. In 1087 Tatikios commanded the Byzantine right wing in the Battle of Dristra against the Pechenegs, and in 1090 he defeated a small force of 300 Pechenegs while leading the Archontopouloi tagma against them.

...
Wikipedia