Eustathios 7 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L IX |
Dates | 866 (taq) / 866 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 1799 |
Locations | Kepoi (Thrakesioi) |
Titles | Protostrator of Bardas 5 (office) |
Textual Sources | Georgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history); 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 7 served under the Kaisar Bardas 5 as protostrator in 866 and was in attendance when Bardas 5 visited the emperor's tent at Kepoi and was murdered: Georg. Mon. Cont. (ed. E. de Muralt, in PG 110), p. 1060B, Theod. Mel. 171, 9f. (ἔχων Εὐστάθιον πρωτοστράτορα γενναῖον, τὸν Ἄργυρον), Georg. Mon. Cont. 830, Symeon Slav., p. 107, line 19 (ἔχων πρωτοστράτορα γενναῖον τὸν Ἄργυρον), Georg. Mon. Cont. (ed. V. M. Istrin, Knigy vremennia i obraznyia Georgiia Mnikha. Khronika Georgiia Amartola v drevnem slavianorusskom perevode. Tekst, izsledovanie i slovar, I (Petrograd, 1922)), p. 13,12ff. (ὁ αὐτοῦ πρωτοστράτωρ Εὐστάθιος, ᾧ ἐπίκλην Ἄργυρος, ἀνὴρ γενναιότατος). See Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 82, 169.
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