Mavrikios Gavras was an Avtokrator of the Empire of Videssos; he reigned some 1200 years after the empire was formed. It was during his reign that the Ronam tribe appeared in the Empire. Gavras was an usurper, overthrowing the ineffectual Strobilos Sphrantzes.

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. Ortaias Sphrantzes, a member of the rival political family, the Sphrantzes, seized the throne in the capital.

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