Konstantinos 231 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 826 (taq) / 827 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 3928 |
| Locations | Sicily (officeplace); Sicily |
| Titles | Patrikios (office); Strategos, Sicily (office) |
| Textual Sources | Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum, ed. G. Waitz, in MGH, Scr. Rer. Lang., pp. 402-435 (chronicle); Ibn al-Athir = `Izz al-Din ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil fi-l Ta`rikh, extracts translated in Vasiliev, Byzance et les Arabes I, pp. 351-369 (chronicle); Nuwairi = Ahmad ibn `Abd al-Wahhab al-Nuwairi, Nihayat al-`arab fi funun al-adab, 27 vols. ed. M. Abu'l Fadl Ibrahim (Cairo 1964-); excerpted in Vasiliev, Byzance et les Arabes I, pp. 379-385 (chronicle) |
Konstantinos 231 was called Konstantinos Sudas: Nuwairi (tr. Vasiliev, Byzance et les Arabes, I, p. 379) "le patrice Constantin, surnommé Suda". He was appointed strategos of Sicilia by Michael II (Michael 10) and sent against the rebel Euphemios 1 in 826/827, who attacked and killed him: Gesta Episcoporum Neapolitanorum, p. 429; Ibn al-Athir (Vasiliev, op. cit. I, p. 356, Nuwairi, loc. cit. Cf. also Anonymus 193.
Cf. also Vasiliev, Byzance et les Arabes I, p. 67 and n. 1; Laurent, "Le statut", p. 384, n. 8; Laurent, REB 21 (1963), p. 134; Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, pp. 37, 88ff.; Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, p. 162.
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