Andreas 4 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M VIII |
Dates | 743 (taq) / 743 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 387 |
Titles | Spatharios (dignity) |
Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Andreas 4 was a spatharios (σπαθάριον), sent as envoy to the new caliph al-Walid II (Walid 2) in 743 by Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) to seek help against the rebel Artabasdos 1: Theoph. AM 6234. See also Gregorios 8.
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