Anonyma 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexF
FloruitM VII
Dates662 (taq) / 661 (tpq)
LocationsConstantinople (residence);
Constantinople
Textual SourcesTheophanes 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)

Anonyma 1 equals Phausta 1, where the material in this article is repeated.

Anonyma 1 was the wife of the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1); in 661/662 she was living in Constantinople with her three sons Konstantinos 2, Heraklios 1 and Tiberios 1; the inhabitants refused to allow them to leave to join Konstans 1 in the West: Theoph. AM 6153, Zon. XIV 19. 31 (διὸ καὶ τὴν βασίλισσαν καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ (τρεῖς δ' ἦσαν, Κωνσταντῖνος, Ἡράκλειος καὶ Τιβέριος) μετεκαλεῖτο (sc. Konstans 1) πρὸς ἑαυτόν. ἀλλὰ τοῦτο μέν τινες τῶν ᾠκειωμένων αὐτῷ διεκώλυσαν). Her name was Fausta; see Phausta 1.

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