Anonymus 26

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates813 (taq) / 813 (tpq)
PmbZ No.1422
EthnicityBulgar
LocationsAdrianoupolis (Macedonia)
Textual SourcesGeorgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history);
Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle);
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 26 was the brother of the Bulgar ruler, Krum 1; in 813 he remained to besiege Adrianople while Krum 1 marched on Constantinople; Krum 1 later returned to join Anonymus 26, and Adrianople then fell: Theoph. AM 6305, Leo Gramm. 207, Georg. Mon. Cont. 764-765.

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