Kallistos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Dates | 838 (taq) / 845 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 3606 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Amorion (Galatia) |
| Titles | Patrikios (office); Patrikios (office); Tourmarches (office) |
| Textual Sources | Georgius 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); Scylitzes, Ioannes, Synopsis Historiarum, ed. J. Thurn (Berlin, 1973) (history); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
The tourmarches Kallistos 1 (Κάλλιστος τουρμάρχης) was among the army commanders captured by the Arabs at the fall of Amorion in 838; they were all carried off into captivity and executed after refusing to abjure their faith: Leo Gramm. 224, Ps.-Symeon 639, Georg. Mon. Cont. 805, Scyl., p. 78 ("one of the patrikioi and army commanders" - οἱ τῶν στρατευμάτων ἐξάρχοντες), Zon. XV 29. 18 (one of the patrikioi - οἱ πατρίκιοι). Kallistos 1 is named (except in Scylitzes and Zonaras) after Theophilos 6, Melissenos 1, Aetios 2 and Theodoros 67 Krateros and before Konstantinos 30, Bassoes 1 and unnamed officers of the tagmata. He is apparently different from Kallistos 2, spatharios and doux of Koloneia, who was not among those captured at Amorion.
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