Konstantinos 296

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitE/M IX
PmbZ No.3938
TitlesBasilikos spatharios (dignity);
Protonotarios, Dromos (office)
Textual SourcesIgnatios of Nicaea, Epistulae, in C. Mango, The Correspondence of Ignatios the Deacon, Dumbarton Oaks Texts 11 (Washington, DC, 1997) (letters)

Konstantinos 296 was a basilikos spatharios and protonotarios of the dromos; addressee of a letter from Ignatius the Deacon (Ignatios 9); Ignatios 9, having carried out orders sent him by Konstantinos 296 (παρὰ τῆς σῆς βιωφελοῦς ἐντολῆς), wrote to reproach him for failing to carry out a promise in return to inform the logothetes (Anonymus 761) of Ignatios 9's impoverished state; Konstantinos 296 is addressed as ὦ πανεύφημε: Ignatius Diac., Ep. 39 (addressed Κωνσταντίνῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ τοῦ δρόμου).

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