Konstantinos 15

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VIII
Dates799 (taq) / 799 (tpq)
PmbZ No.3870
LocationsHellas (officeplace);
Athens (Hellas);
Hellas (birthplace)
TitlesStrategos, Hellas (office)
Textual SourcesTheophanes 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 15 was nicknamed Serantapechos (Κωνσταντῖνον τὸν Σεραντάπηχον): Theoph. AM 6291. He was a patrikios (πατρίκιον) and father of Theophylaktos 8 (and possibly uncle of the empress Eirene 1); in 799 he received a message from the empress Eirene 1 via his son as a result of which the sons of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) were all blinded (ἡ βασίλισσα Εἰρήνη ἀποστέλλει πρὸς τὸν πατρίκιον Κωνσταντῖνον τὸν Σεραντάπηχον Θεοφύλακτον, τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, σπαθάριον ὄντα καὶ ἀνεψιὸν αὐτῆς : καὶ πάντα ἐτύφλωσε καὶ διεσκέδασε τὴν κατ' αὐτῆς βουλὴν αὐτῶν): Theoph. AM 6291. The message was sent when Eirene 1 heard of an attempt to proclaim as emperor one of the sons of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), who were then living in exile in Athens; Konstantinos 15 was evidently himself in Athens and perhaps responsible for the prisoners. He was perhaps strategos of the theme of Hellas. He was presumably like Eirene 1 a native of Hellas. See also Mango and Scott, Theophanes p. 652, n. 6 and Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 94.

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