Myritzikos 1 was the husband of Anastaso 1 and father of Ioannikios 2; the family lived in the village of Marykaton north of lake Apollonias in Bithynia: Sabas, Vita Ioannicii 2, Petrus, Vita Ioannicii 4. Ioannikios 2 was born during the reign of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7, allegedly in his fourteenth regnal year), in c. 752/754. Since Ioannikios 2 (apparently) bore the family name Boilas (cf. Sabas, Vita 6: γένους τῶν Βοϊλαδῶν), Myritzikos 1 may have been of Bulgar origin; see Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 181-182 and cf. also Konstantinos 16. When Ioannikios 2 was seven, his parents sent him to tend pigs, which he did until he reached manhood: Sabas, Vita Ioannicii 2. Myritzikos 1 was presumably therefore a farmer or peasant. The family were all iconoclasts: Sabas, Vita Ioannicii 2. In c. 794, when Ioannikios 2 withdrew to Mt Olympus in Bithynia to become a hermit, he did so with the blessing of his parents: Sabas, Vita Ioannicii 7. They were therefore still alive then. They had presumably abandoned iconoclasm at the same time as he did (in c. 787); cf. Sabas, Vita Ioannicii 4 and 5.

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