Bardas 4

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VIII/E IX
PmbZ No.784
EthnicityArmenian
LocationsArmenia (birthplace)
Textual SourcesAnnales Regni Francorum, ed. F. Kurze, MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 6 (1895; repr. 1950) (annals);
Genesii, Josephi, Regum Libri Quattuor, eds. A. Lesmüller-Werner and I. Thurn, CFHB 14 (Berlin, 1978) (history);
Scriptor Incertus de Leone Armenio, ed. I. Bekker, Leo Grammaticus (Bonn, 1842), pp. 335-362; app. crit., R. Browning, Byz 35 (1965), pp. 391-41; ed. with comm. and tr., Fr. Iadevaia (Messina, 1987) (history)

Bardas 4 was a native of Armenia; he was the father of the emperor Leo V (Leo 15): Scriptor Incertus de Leone Armenio 336, 340. Patrikios; father of the emperor Leo V (Leo 15); he was a native of Armenia: Genesius II 4 (ὁ Βάρδα μὲν τοῦ πατρικίου υἱὸς, ἐξ Ἀρμενίων δὲ κατάγων τὸ γένος). Patrikios; he was the father of the emperor Leo V (Leo 15): Annales Regni Francorum s.a. 813. His wife was Anonyma 17.

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