Leo 269 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| PmbZ No. | 4475 |
| Locations | Hellas; Hellas (officeplace) |
| Titles | Basilikos protospatharios (dignity); Strategos, Hellas (office) |
| Textual Sources | Orlandos, A. K., and Branouses, L., Ta charagmata tou Parthenonos (Athens, 1973) (epigraphy) |
| Seal Sources | Dumbarton Oaks, A Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, eds., J. Nesbitt and N. Oikonomides (Washington, DC, 1991-) |
Leo 269 was basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Hellas; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth century: DOSeals II 8.48. Obv.: patriarchal cross on three steps, with a circular inscription: +Κεβοηθε.τωσωδουλ.. Rev.: +Λεον - τ' β' α'σπα - θαρ' [και] στ - ρατ' γ' Ελ -αδο'. The name and title read: Λέοντι βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Ἑλάδος. Cf. also Leo 141. Possibly identical with Leo Kotzes, basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Hellas, who died in August 848 and was probably buried on the Akropolis: see Orlandos and Branouses, no. 164. The note in Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DOSeals II, p. 44, remarks on similarities between this man's seal and one owned by the patriarch Methodios 1 (Oikonomides, Dated Seals, no. 50).
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