Konstantinos 6 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 766 (taq) / 766 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 3822 |
| Religion | Iconophile |
| Locations | Great Palace (Constantinople) (deathplace); Hippodrome (Constantinople) |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Logothetes, Dromos (office) |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (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) |
Konstantinos 6 was nicknamed Podopagouros (? = "crab foot") by the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7): Theoph. AM 6257. Brother of Strategios 1: Nic.Brev. de Boor 74, Mango 83 (καὶ ὁ τούτου ἀδελφὸς Στρατήγιος), Theoph. AM 6257. In 766 he was patrikios and logothetes of the dromos (ὁ πατρίκιος καὶ λογοθέτης τοῦ δρόμου γενόμενος): Theoph. AM 6257. He was one of nineteen high officials (ἐπίσημοι ἄρχοντες ιθ', Theoph. AM 6257; ἄνδρας τινὰς τῶν ἐν ὑπεροχαῖς καὶ ἀξιώμασιν, Nic.Brev. de Boor 74, Mango 83:8-9) accused in 766 of conspiring against Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), who were put on display in the hippodrome on 25 August; according to Theophanes the charges were false, based on the emperor's ill-will because of their popularity and because some of them were known sympathisers with the recently martyred Stephen the Younger (Stephanos 2); Konstantinos 6 and Strategios 1 were condemned to death and were beheaded in the Kynegion, an event which, according to Theophanes, caused widespread sorrow and led to the dismissal of Prokopios 2: Theoph. AM 6257, Nic. Brev. de Boor 74, Mango 83. Possibly an iconophile. See Rochow, Konstantin V, p. 220. Cf. also Anonymi 8.
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