Anonymus 26 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E IX |
Dates | 813 (taq) / 813 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 1422 |
Ethnicity | Bulgar |
Locations | Adrianoupolis (Macedonia) |
Textual Sources | Georgius 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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