Konstantinos 9 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 727 (taq) / 727 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 3780 |
| Religion | Iconoclast |
| Locations | Nikaia |
| Titles | Strator of Artabasdos 1 (office) |
| Textual Sources | 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 9 was a strator serving under Artabasdos 1 in 727 (Κωνσταντῖνος δέ τις στράτωρ τοῦ Ἀρταβάσδου); while in Nikaia during the siege by the Arabs (Σαρακηνῶν) (see `Amr 1 and Mu`awiya 4) he threw a stone at an icon of the Theotokos that had been set up; he also broke and trampled on an icon of the Theotokos who allegedly appeared to him that night in a dream and warned him of the consequences; the following day during an Arab (τῶν Σαρακηνῶν) attack he was struck on the head and face by a stone thrown from a siege engine and was killed: Theoph. AM 6218. Though described as "wretched", he is also described as attacking the wall "like the brave soldier he was" (δραμὼν εἰς τὸ τεῖχος ὡς γενναῖος στρατιώτης ὁ ταλαίπωρος): Theoph. AM 6218. See also Mango and Scott, Theophanes p. 562 n. 12.
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