Anonymus 629 was the husband of Eirene 10 and father of Anonyma 85 and is mentioned in several letters from Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite) to his wife Eirene 10: Theod. Stud., Ep. 55 (a. 811/815; which mentions their daughter), Ep. 87 (a. 815/818), Ep. 156 (a. 815/818), Ep. 412 (a. 818/820), Ep. 508 (a. 821/826). Anonymus 629 seems to have been exiled with his wife Eirene 10 and daughter Anonyma 85 during the persecution under Leo V (Leo 15): Theod. Stud., Ep. 87. Between 821 and 826, under the emperor Michael II (Michale 10), in a letter to Eirene 10, Theodoros 15 describes Anonymus 629 as a patrikios (ὁ κύριος ὁ πατρίκιος καὶ θεόσδοτός σου σύζυγος) and describes him as blessed by the goodness of his wife; she is urged to encourage him to exercise his authority as strategos well and wisely, as he is doing (τὸ τῆς στρατηγίας ὕψωμα διέπειν θεοφιλῶς, καθὰ καὶ διέπει), by caring for orphans and widows, abstaining from injustice, loving monks and beggars and showing mercy, for his powers could be used to injure those under him (ἐπειδήπερ ἡ ἐξουσία αὕτη ἀρκοῦσα ἐστι καταπλῆξαι τοὺς ὑπὸ χεῖρα): Theod. Stud., Ep. 508.

Anonymus 629 is probably to be identified with the unnamed strategos who compelled Philotheos 9 to join the iconoclasts (during the persecution under the emperor Leo V, Leo 15) in worship and communion: Theod. Stud., Ep. 507, pp. 753-754. See Fatouros, pp. 457*-458*. This action seems at variance with his normal stance (see above) and he was perhaps carrying out orders.

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