Leo 17 was normally identified as "the son of Skleros" (Skleros 1) (Λέοντα τόν ἐπιλεγόμενον τοῦ Σκλήρου); in 811 Leo 17 was expelled from the palace at Constantinople by the new emperor Michael I (Michael 7) and sent to be strategos of Peloponnesos: Scriptor Incertus 336 (ἐποίησεν αὐτὸν στρατηγὸν εἰς Πελοπόννησον). This man is not to be identified with Leo 105 (basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Peloponnesos) who owned the seal published in Schlumberger, Sig., p. 181, no. 7 = Konstantopoulos, JIAN 5, 72 = Bon, Le Péloponnèse byzantin, p. 189, no. 18. The seal is too late in date. See also Leo 219, with Seibt, Skleroi 21 and Leo 102, with Seibt, Skleroi 2 and 20.

Leo 17 is possibly to be identified with an unnamed member of the Skleros family who is said to have been a native of Armenia and to have been strategos of the Peloponnesos under the emperor Nikephoros I (Nikephoros 8); he recovered the eastern Peloponnesos from its Slav occupiers: Chronicle of Monembasia, ed. Kalligas, p. 9, lines 150-154, Arethas, Scholium (cited in H. A. Kalligas, Byzantine Monemvasia: The Sources (Monemvasia, 1990), pp. 16-17. On the identification (rejected by Seibt), see Seibt, Skleroi, pp. 19-21.)

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