Gregorios 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates651 (taq) / 650 (tpq)
PmbZ No.2346
Variant NamesGrygwryws
LocationsConstantinople;
Damascus
Textual SourcesChronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
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 2 = Gregorios 3 and Gregorios 156.

Son of Theodoros 2 and nephew of the emperor Heraklios (PLRE III, p. 586f.): Chron. 1234, §133 (p. 274), Theoph. AM 6142 (Γρηγόριον, υἱὸν Θεοδώρου), Theoph. AM 6144 (Γρηγόριος, ἀδελφιδὸς Ἡρακλείου). He was sent by the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1) as hostage to Mu`awiya 1 at Damascus in 650/651 to guarantee the two-year peace negotiated by Prokopios 1: Chron. 1234, §133 (p. 274) ("Grygwryws br T'wdwryqy"), Theoph. AM 6142. He died in the following year and his corpse was embalmed and returned to Constantinople; his death coincided with the end of the peace: Chron. 1234, §133 (p. 274), Theoph. AM 6144. (Γρηγόριος, ἀδελφιδὸς Ἡρακλείου, ἐν Ἡλιουπόλει ἀπέθανε καὶ σμυρνισθεὶς εἰσήχθη ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει).

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