Also called Synkletous(on which see Auzépy, n. 249), Georgios 129 was one of the brash young men attending on the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) and included among his favourites (ἕνα τῶν αὐτοῦ σφριγώντων νεωτέρων ὃν καὶ πολλὰ ἀγαπᾶν ἐξώμνυτο, Γεώργιον τοὔνομα, τὸ ἐπίκλην Συγκλητοῦν): Vita Steph. Iun. 136, 18-20 (1132D). He was sent to Mt Auxentius by the emperor to trick Stephen the Younger (Stephanos 2) into accepting him as a monk (as part of a plan to discredit Stephanos 2): Vita Steph. Iun. 137, 8 (1133A). From his shaven appearance Stephanos 2 instantly recognised him as one of the emperor's men, but nevertheless agreed to accept him and after three days gave him the tonsure and dressed him in the dress of a monk: Vita Steph. Iun. 137, 17-138, 27 (1133B-1136C). The emperor meanwhile made a public statement alleging that Georgios 129 had been kidnapped and seduced into becoming a monk by the iconophiles: Vita Steph. Iun. 139, 1-4 (1136B). Three days later Georgios 129 left the mountain and returned to the emperor, according to plan, and was privately welcomed by Konstantinos 7 for carrying through the deceit: Vita Steph. Iun. 139, 21-24 (1136C-D). Georgios 129 was then put on public display in the Hippodrome and was publicly humiliated and stripped of his monastic dress (cf. also Michael 5); after that, however, he was dressed in official costume and was raised by the emperor himself to the position of strator (τότε περικεφαλαίαν αὐτῷ περιδήσαντες καὶ στρατιωτικὸν περιθέντες ἔνδυμα, ἰδίαις χερσὶν ὁ τύραννος σπάθην ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων αὐτοῦ κρεμάσας, εἰς βαθμὸν προανεβίβασεν, τῇ τοῦ στρατωρικίου ἀξίᾳ τοῦτον ἐντάξας): Vita Steph. Iun. 140, 24-141, 4 (1137B-C).

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