Anonymus 47

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L IX
Dates867 (taq) / 867 (tpq)
ReligionChristian
LocationsKynegion (Constantinople);
Constantinople
OccupationMonk
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 47 was a monk at Constantinople; probably in 867, while the emperor Michael III (Michael 11) was approaching the kynegion, Anonymus 47 handed Michael 11 a document informing Michael 11 of the plots of Basilios 7 (Basil I) against him: Leo Gramm. 250, Georg. Mon. Cont. 836, Ps.-Symeon 683.

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