Career
Bulgarian in origin, Chryselios was the "leading man" (proteuon) of Dyrrhachium. According to another opinion, his name is not Bulgarian and no evidence that Chryselios was Bulgarian. According to a note on the history of John Skylitzes, the Bulgarian tsar Samuel married Chryselios"s daughter Agathe, who was taken captive after Samuel sacked the city of Larissa.
lieutenant is possible that thereby Samuel managed to acquire control over the strategically important Adriatic port city.
Soon, a Byzantine squadron appeared off the city under Eustathios Daphnomeles, and the city returned to Byzantine rule, but Chryselios had died in the meantime. lieutenant is, however, possible that this episode actually took place as late as 1018, at the end of the Bulgarian war, since the chronology of the war"s primary source, John Skylitzes, is unclear.
While the Italian chronicle of Lupus Protospatharius gives a completely different date for the recovery of Dyrrhachium, 1004/5, and does not mention Chryselios at all. A certain Theodoretos, who was the father of Kosara, the wife of Prince Jovan Vladimir of Duklja, has also been suggested by modern scholarship as one of Chryselios" sons.