Ioannes 93 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Dates | 858 (taq) / 858 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 3306 |
| Locations | Holy Apostles (Church of the, Constantinople); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
| Textual Sources | Genesii, Josephi, Regum Libri Quattuor, eds. A. Lesmüller-Werner and I. Thurn, CFHB 14 (Berlin, 1978) (history); Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history); Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history); Vita Ignatii Patriarchae, by Nicetas (BHG 817), PG 105.488-574) (hagiography) |
Ioannes 93 was nicknamed Gorgonites; in 858 he, Theodoros Moros (Theodoros 75) and Nikolaos 7 were entrusted with custody of the patriarch Ignatios 1 by the Kaisar Bardas 5 after Bardas 5 and the patriarch fell out; they imprisoned Ignatios 1 in the Church of the Holy Apostles, in the section of the tombs, and put him in the sarcophagus of Constantine V Copronymus (Konstantinos 7) in appalling conditions during the winter season, until Ignatios 1 was deposed and replaced by Photios 1: Theoph. Cont. IV 31 (pp. 193-194) (ὅ τε Γοργονίτης Ἰωάννης), Ps.-Symeon 667 (τῷ Γοργονίτῃ Ἰωάννῃ), Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 521B (ὁ Γοργονίτης Ἰωάννης).
Called Gorgonites (Γοργονίτῃ Ἰωάννῃ), Ioannes 93 was one of the three men to whom Bardas 5 delivered the deposed patriarch Ignatios 1; he, with Theodoros 75 and Nikolaos 7, took Ignatios 1 to the tombs of the emperors in the Church of the Holy Apostles and imprisoned him in the tomb of the emperor Constantine V Copronymus (Konstantinos 7), leaving him there naked and without food during the winter season: Genesius IV 18. Theodoros 75 was perhaps a manglabites and the other two may have been so also.
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