Leo 9 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | E |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 780 (taq) / 780 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 4312 |
| Religion | Iconophile |
| Locations | Constantinople (officeplace); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Titles | Koubikoularios (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) |
Leo 9 was a koubikoularios, one of several people (many of them koubikoularioi) (Λέων τε καὶ Θωμᾶς, κουβικουλάριοι καὶ οὗτοι) arrested for image worshipping during Lent 780 by the emperor Leo IV (Leo 4); they were beaten and tonsured and put on display in the Mese [the central street of Constantinople] before being imprisoned; later they all, apart from Theophanes 2 who died, proved excellent monks (οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ πάντες μετὰ τὴν τούτου τελευτὴν δόκιμοι μοναχοὶ ἀνεδείχθησαν): Theoph. AM 6272. See further Iakobos 1.
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