Nikolaos 7 was known as Skoutelopsis; Ps.-Symeon 667, Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 521B (ὁ Σκουτελόπτης Νικόλαος), Theoph. Cont. IV 31 (p. 194). He was the son of Theodoulos 4: Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 521B (ὁ Θεοδούλου Νικόλαος ὁ Σκουτελόψις ἦν). In 858 (or perhaps later, in 861, see below), Bardas 5 imprisoned the patriarch Ignatios 1 and gave him into the custody of Theodoros 75 Moros, Ioannes 93 and Nikolaos 7; they shut him up in the Church of the Holy Apostles, in the section of the tombs, and put him in the sarcophagus of the emperor Constantine V Copronymus (Konstantinos 7), where they kept him naked throughout the winter months, until they could produce evidence of his voluntary abdication, when they were able to replace him by Photios 1: Theoph. Cont. IV 31 (pp. 193-194), Ps.-Symeon 667, Genesius IV 18, Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 521B (the narrative in the Vita Ignatii places this episode in the aftermath of the Council of Constantinople in 861). See Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, p. 170.

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