Khalid 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E/M VII |
Variant Names | Chaledos |
Ethnicity | Arab |
Textual Sources | Tabari, al-, Ta'rikh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, ed. M.-J. de Goeje et al., 15 vols. (Leiden 1879-1901); Eng tr. The History of al-Tabari, general editor E. Yar-Shater, 39 vols. (New York, 1985-) (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) |
Khalid 1 was the father of Abderachman (Abd ar-Rahman 9): Theoph. AM 6156 (ὁ τοῦ Χαλέδου), Tabari XVIII, pp. 87, 88, 89. He was Khalid b. al-Walid, the "Sword of Allah"; cf. PLRE III, p. 761, Encyclopaedia of Islam IV, p. 928, s.n. Khalid b. al-Walid.
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