Anonymus 44

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM IX
Dates856 (taq) / 856 (ob.)
LocationsHippodrome (Constantinople) (deathplace);
Constantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople (residence);
Constantinople
TitlesBasilikos prostrator (office)
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);
Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history)

Anonymus 44 was a basilikos protostrator (τοῦ βασιλέως τὸν πρωτοστράτορα) who conspired with the empress Theodora 2 to murder Bardas 5; the plot was discovered and he was executed with others in the Sphendone (the curved end of the Hippodrome in Constantinople); he was succeeded as protostrator by Basilios 7 (the future emperor Basil I): Leo Gramm. 237, Georg. Mon. Cont. 823-824, Ps.-Symeon 658. The date was 856.

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