Mousilikios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L IX |
| Variant Names | Mousilikes |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Kephallenia (officeplace); Kephallenia; Sicily (officeplace); Sicily |
| Titles | Strategos, Sicily (office) |
| Textual Sources | Georgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history); Vita Ignatii Patriarchae, by Nicetas (BHG 817), PG 105.488-574) (hagiography) |
Mousilikios 1 was strategos of Sicily (ὁ τῆς Σικελίας στρατηγὸς); he defeated the Arabs in battle in Sicily after seeing a vision of the late patriarch Ignatios 1; he confirmed the truth of this story with solemn oaths: Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 564A (τὸν στρατοπεδάρχην - Μουσιλίκης δὲ ὄνομα τῷ ἀνδρὶ). Ignatios 1 died in 877. During the reign of Basil I (Basilios 7), when Prokopios (PBE II; cf. Prokopios 10) was sent as overall commander of the troops of the Western themes, Mousilikios 1 was strategos of the theme of Kephallenia: Georg. Mon. Cont. 845 (ὄντος Εὐπραξίου στρατηλάτου εἰς Σικελίαν, καὶ εἰς Κεφαληνίαν τοῦ Μουσουλίκη). See G. da Costa-Louillet, "Saints de Constantinople aux VIIIe, IXe et Xe siècles", Byz 24 (1954), 476.
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