Baktangios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E/M VIII |
| Dates | 743 (taq) / 743 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 737 |
| Religion | Christian; Iconophile |
| Ethnicity | Georgian |
| Locations | Kynegion (Constantinople) (deathplace); Constantinople; Pouzanes (Opsikion) (topographical); Chora (Monastery of the, Constantinople) (burialplace); Pelagios (Cemetery of, Constantinople) (burialplace) |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity) |
| Textual Sources | 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); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Baktangios 1 was a patrikios (τῷ πατρικίῳ Βακταγγίῳ); Baktangios 1 escaped from Constantinople with Artabasdos 1 after the city fell to Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) in late 743; he was captured with Artabasdos 1 in the fort of Pouzanes in the Opsikion territory, taken back to Constantinople and beheaded in the Kynegion; he was buried in the monastery of the Chora; thirty years later Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) ordered his widow (Anonyma 25) to collect his bones from there, carry them away herself and deposit them in the cemetery of Pelagios (in disgrace): Theoph. AM 6235, cf. Zon. XV 5.19-20 (Βακτάγγιος ὁ πατρίκιος, τῶν ἐπισήμων ἀνήρ; repetition of the story about his bones and his widow). His name was probably the Georgian name Vakhtang, and he may therefore have originated in the same part of the world as Artabasdos 1 and been a close friend and colleague of the usurper.
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