Anonymus 5

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates669 (taq) / 668 (tpq)
LocationsArabissos (Armenia Prima);
Arabissos (Armenia Prima) (officeplace)
TitlesKleisourophylax, Arabissos (Armenia Prima) (office)
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)

Anonymus 5 was kleisourophylax (τῶ κλεισουροφύλακι at Arabissos in 668/669, he refused to join the rebel Saborios 1 and remained loyal to the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1); at the request of Andreas 1 (envoy of Konstans 1) he ambushed Sergios 2 (the envoy of Saborios 1) and sent him in chains to Andreas 1 at Amnesia (? = Anisa): Theoph. AM 6159.

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