Anonymus 44 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M IX |
Dates | 856 (taq) / 856 (ob.) |
Locations | Hippodrome (Constantinople) (deathplace); Constantinople (officeplace); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
Titles | Basilikos prostrator (office) |
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); 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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