Chrysocheres 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 792 (taq) / 792 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 1154 |
| Variant Names | Chrysocheir |
| Locations | Boukellarioi; Boukellarioi (officeplace) |
| Titles | Strategos, Boukellarioi (office) |
| 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) |
Many MSS of Theophanes spell Chrysocheres 1's name Chrysocheris; in Zonaras he is called Chrysocheir. In 792 Chrysocheres 1 was strategos of the Boukellarioi (Χρυσοχέρην, στρατηγὸν τῶν Βουκελλαρίων: Theoph. AM 6285); when the Armeniakoi rebelled after the blinding of Alexios 1 in August 792, the emperor Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8) sent Konstantinos 13 and Chrysocheres 1 with the other themata against them; they were defeated by the Armeniakoi in November 792 and both Konstantinos 13 and Chrysocheres 1 were blinded: Theoph. AM 6285, cf. Zon. XV 12.15-16 (τὸν Χρυσόχειρα, στρατηγὸν τῶν Βουκελλαρίων τυγχάνοντα). On the name, cf. Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, p.156.
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