Kordyles 1 was allegedly a general in Macedonia during the reign of the emperor Theophilos (Theophilos 5) (ἦν στρατηλάτης ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ ὁ Κορδύλης προσαγορευόμενος) and father of Bardas 6, whom he put in command of the "Macedonians" living north of the Danube (whom the Bulgars had carried away from Adrianople into captivity in 813) while he himself made his way to the emperor Theophilos 5 at Constantinople and asked for naval help to secure the freedom of the captive Macedonians; later, when the Macedonians were under attack while trying to cross the Danube, they put themselves under the leadership of Tzantzes 1 and Kordyles 1 and inflicted a defeat on the Bulgars (cf. Anonymus 41): Leo Gramm. 231-232, Georg. Mon. Cont. 817-818. The story is omitted from Pseudo-Symeon.

The whole story of the freeing of the captive Macedonians is of doubtful historical worth; cf. A. Vogt, Basile I, empereur de Byzance (867-886) (Paris, 1908), pp. 24-25, n. 8. Certain details of the story are implausible, but perhaps Kordyles 1, Bardas 6 and Tzantzes 1 were real leaders of the exiled "Macedonians". On the name (possibly "Kondyles"), perhaps his family name, see Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 164-165.

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