Monocherares 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Melitene (Armenia); Melitene (Armenia) (officeplace) |
| Titles | Emir, Melitene (Armenia) (office) |
| Textual Sources | Peter of Sicily, Historia chreiodes, ed. D. Papachryssanthou, in C. Astruc et al., "Les sources grecques pour l'histoire des Pauliciens d'Asie Mineure", TM 4 (1970), pp. 3-67 (history) |
Monocherares 1 was emir of Melitene (Ἀμηρᾶς δὲ τότε τῶν ἐκεῖσε ὄντων σαρακηνῶν ὕπηρχεν ὁ Μονοχέραρες) at the time when the followers of the Paulician Sergios 1 fled there from persecution, after they had murdered the exarchos Parakondakes 1; Monocherares 1 gave them Argaoun to live in, from where they began to raid the Roman empire; Peter of Sicily, 178. See further P. Lemerle, "L' Histoire des Pauliciens d' Asie Mineure d' après les sources grecques", in TM 5 (1973), pp. 1-144.
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