Ioannes 19 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 813 (taq) / 813 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 3197 |
| Locations | Bersinikia (deathplace); Macedonia (officeplace); Bersinikia; Macedonia |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Strategos, Macedonia (office) |
| Textual Sources | Scriptor Incertus de Leone Armenio, ed. I. Bekker, Leo Grammaticus (Bonn, 1842), pp. 335-362; app. crit., R. Browning, Byz 35 (1965), pp. 391-41; ed. with comm. and tr., Fr. Iadevaia (Messina, 1987) (history); 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) |
Ioannes 19 was known as Aplakes (Ἰωάννης, ... ὁ Ἀπλάκης); in 813 he was patrikios and strategos of Macedonia (Ἰωάννης, πατρίκιος καὶ στρατηγὸς Μακεδονίας, ὁ Ἀπλάκης) with the army of the emperor Michael I (Michael 7) at Bersinikia; he and Leo 15 (not mentioned by Scriptor Incertus) wanted to join battle with the Bulgars under Krum 1, because the circumstances were favourable, but they were prevented from doing so by the emperor: Theoph. AM 6305, cf. Scriptor Incertus 337 (ὁ Ἀπλάκης ἦν ἐπὶ τὸ ἓν μέρος τῆς ἄκρας, ἔχων τοὺς Μακεδόνας καὶ τοὺς Θρᾳκησιανούς). When the Bulgars then attacked him and his men, the rest of the imperial army fled; he was left without help and outnumbered and he and many of his men were killed: Scriptor Incertus 338.
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