Hegesimos 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates816 (tpq) / 818 (taq)
PmbZ No.2544
LocationsStoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople);
Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) (residence)
OccupationMonk
Textual SourcesTheodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters)

A Stoudite monk, Hegesimos 1 was the addressee of two letters from Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite), written between 816 and 818: Theod. Stud., Ep. 172, p. 293; 351, p. 487 (both addressed Ἡγησίμῳ τέκνῳ). Hegesimos 1 is mentioned in another letter as one of the Stoudite monks associated with Euthymios 15 and Ephraim 2; Hegesimos 1 also suffered punishment during the persecution under Leo V (Leo 15): Theod. Stud., Ep. 181, pp. 303-305.

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