Anonymus 11

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VII
Dates695 (taq) / 695 (tpq)
LocationsConstantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople (residence);
Constantinople
TitlesEparch, Constantinople (office)
Textual SourcesNicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history);
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)

Anonymus 11 was an unnamed hyparchos of the praitorion (i.e. the city prefect) who was tricked into admitting Leontios 2 into the praitorion prison at Constantinople in 695; he was tied up, while Leontios 2 released the prisoners and with their help rebelled against the emperor Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1): Nic. Brev. de Boor 38, Mango 40:19 (ὁ τοῦ πραιτωρίου ὕπαρχος), Theoph. AM 6187 (τοῦ τηνικαῦτα ὑπάρχου).

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