Gregorios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VII |
| Dates | 644 (c.) / 647 (c.) |
| PmbZ No. | 2345 |
| Locations | Africa (officeplace);
Africa |
| Titles | Exarch, Africa (office);
Patrikios (office) |
| Textual Sources | Baladhuri, al-, Kitab futuh al-Buldan, tr. P. K. Hitti, The Origins of the Islamic State (London, 1916, reprint Beirut, 1966) (history);
Bar Hebraeus, Chronographia, tr. E. A. W. Budge, The Chronography of Abu 'l-Faraj (London, 1932; repr. Amsterdam, 1976) (history);
Chronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (chronicle);
Relatio Motionis Factae inter Domnum Abbatem Maximum et Socium eius atque Principes in Secretario, PG 99. 109-130 (theology);
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) |
Gregorios 1 was the patrikios of Africa: Theoph. AM 6138 (ὁ πατρίκιος Ἀφρικῆς), Chron. 1234, §126 (p. 260) (Grygwryws p'tryqws of Africa), Mich. Syr. II 440 (similar to Chron. 1234). He rebelled with the Africans against the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1): Theoph. AM 6138 (in 646/647), Chron. 1234, §126 (p. 260) (in c. 644), Mich. Syr. II 440 (in the year 958 Sel., AH 25 and year five of Constans). A rebel (τῷ τυράννῳ) in Africa; in the same year he was routed and driven from Africa by the Arabs (Σαρακηνοὶ): Theoph. AM 6139, Chron. 1234, §126 (p. 260), Mich. Syr. II 440-441. After the defeat of his troops he submitted to the emperor: Chron. 1234, §126 (p. 260), Mich. Syr. II 440-441.
Patrikios of Africa (Grighoriyos patriq d - Aphriqi), Gregorios 1 rebelled against the emperor Konstans 1 in the year 958 Sel.(646/647) = AH 25 (Oct. 645/Oct. 646); the Arabs sent a raiding army which was no match for the army of Gregorios 1 ("the army of Patrik") but which occupied the cities along the coast, and Gregorios 1 then returned and submitted again to Konstans 1: Bar Hebr., p. 97. A patrikios who led a rebellion in Africa against the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1); at Constantinople in 652/653 it was alleged that over nine years before (i.e. in c. 643/644) he had been visited by Thomas 63, sent by the bishop of Rome, Theodoros 49, to assure him that he was fated to succeed since Maximus the Confessor (Maximos 10) had seen a vision in which the angels of the East had been outshouted by the angels of the West crying Γρηγόριε Αὔγουστε, τοῦ βίγκας: Relatio Motionis II, 112C.
Gregorios 1 was a patrikios, ruler of Africa, supposedly killed by Ifrikis ibn Qays ibn Saifi 'l-Himyari in pre-Islamic times: Baladhuri, tr. Hitti, p. 361.
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