Eustathios 6

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M IX
Dates829 (tpq) / 842 (taq)
PmbZ No.1787
LocationsConstantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople
TitlesKuaistor (both)
Textual SourcesGeorgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history);
Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle);
Symeon the Logothete, Chronicle (Slavonic version), ed. V. Srevnevskii (St Petersburg, 1905; repr. London, 1971) (chronicle);
Theodosius of Melitene, Chronographia, ed. L. F. Tafel (Munich, 1859) (chronicle)

Eustathios 6 was also called Monomachos (his family name); he was kuaistor during the reign of the emperor Theophilos (Theophilos 5); sent with the antigrapheis Leo 26 and Demetrios 2 by Theophilos 5 to examine a complaint by a widow of illegal building work carried out by Petronas 5, he reported that the complaint was justified and he was sent back with them to demolish the offending buildings and to give the site to the widow: Georg. Mon. Cont. 794 (Εὐστάθιον κυαίστορα ἐπίκλην Μονομάχον), Theod. Mel. 149 (Εὐστάθιος τὸ ἐπίκλην Μονομάχος), Symeon Slav. 94, cf. Leo Gramm. 216 (not named), Ps.-Symeon 626-627 (not named).

On the office of the kuaistor at this time and of his antigrapheis, see Bury, Admin. Sys., pp. 73ff., Oikonomides, Listes, pp. 321-322.

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