Bourniche 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VIII
Dates782 (taq) / 782 (tpq)
PmbZ No.806
Variant NamesBournike;
Burnsi;
al-Barmaki
ReligionMuslim
EthnicityArab
LocationsThrakesioi
Textual SourcesMichael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (chronicle);
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)

Bourniche 1 is called Bourniche (τὸν Βουρνιχὲ) in Theophanes, Burnsi in Michael the Syrian; his Arabic name was al-Barmaki. In 782 when Harun 1 invaded Roman territory Bourniche 1 was sent with an army thirty thousand strong into Asia (the Thrakesion theme), where he defeated the Thrakesion army under Michael 5 Lachanodrakon, also thirty thousand strong, supposedly killing fifteen thousand of them: Theoph. AM 6274, cf. Mich. Syr. III 2 ("Bournike livra bataille et tua dix mille Romains"). For details of this campaign, see Tritle, Byz. 47 (1977), pp. 290ff.

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