Ioannes 91

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexE
FloruitM/L IX
Dates867 (taq) / 867 (tpq)
PmbZ No.3321
LocationsConstantinople (residence);
Constantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople
TitlesPraipositos (office)
Textual SourcesGeorgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history);
Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle);
Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history)

Ioannes 91 was praipositos (Ἰωάννην πραιπόσιτον); sent by the emperor Basil I (Basilios 7) on the morning after the murder of the emperor Michael III (Michael 11) to fetch Eudokia 3 Dekapolitissa and escort her back to her parents: Leo Gramm. 252, Georg. Mon. Cont. 838, Ps.-Symeon 686. The date was 24 September 867. The post was normally held by eunuchs.

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