Andreas 5 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 761 (taq) / 761 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 398 |
| Religion | Iconophile |
| Locations | St Mamas (Hippodrome of, Blachernai) (deathplace); Leukadios (Harbour of, Constantinople) (burialplace); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
| Occupation | Monk |
| 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); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Andreas 5 was a well-respected monk, known as the Kalybite (τὸν ἀοίδιμον μοναχόν, τὸν λεγόμενον Καλυβίτην), he was put to death by the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) in 761 for accusing the emperor of impiety and calling him a new Valens and Julian; he was beaten to death in the hippodrome of St Mamas in Blachernai and his body ordered to be thrown into the river but his sisters (Anonymae 3) saved it and buried it in the harbour of Leukadios: Theoph. AM 6253, Zon. XV 6. 16 (Ὁ μέντοι δυσώνυμος τύραννος Ἀνδρέαν τινὰ μοναχόν, Καλυβίτην λεγόμενον, ὅσιον ἄνδρα, ἐλέγχοντα αὐτὸν καὶ ἀσεβῆ καλοῦντα, καὶ ἄλλον Ἰουλιανὸν καὶ Οὐάλεντα μαστιζόμενον ἔκτεινεν). On this person, see Rochow, Theophanes, pp. 176-177, and Petros 69.
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