David 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 766 (taq) / 766 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 1258 |
| Variant Names | Dabid |
| Locations | Constantinople; Opsikion; Opsikion (officeplace) |
| Titles | Spatharios (dignity); Komes, Opsikion (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) |
David 1 was a spatharios who once served under Beser 1, he held office in 766 as komes of the Opsikion (Δαβὶδ σπαθάριος κατὰ τὸν Βησὴρ καὶ κόμης τοῦ Ὀψικίου); he was one of the high officials who were accused in 766 of conspiracy against the emperor Constantine V and who were put on display on 25 August in the Hippodrome; probably David was one of those who were subsequently blinded and sent into exile: Theoph. AM 6257. See further Konstantinos 6.
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