Pankalo 1 was the mother of the emperor Basil I (Basilios 7); she was buried in the Monastery of St Euphemia, known as Eumorphos, in Constantinople (in the district of Petrion, cf. Janin, Eglises, pp. 127-129), as were also Basilios 7's brothers Marianos 4 and Symbatios 2 and his daughters Anastasia, Anna and Helene, and later the mother of the emperor Constantine Porphyrogennitos, Zoe: Const. Porph., De Cer. II 42 (Reiske, 648-649). (For the four women, see PBE II.)

Unnamed daughter of Anonyma 30; Pankalo 1 lived in Adrianopolis and was distinguished for her good family and for her beauty and her modesty; she married the son of Maiktes 1 (Anonymus 232) and was the mother of the future emperor Basilios 7 and other children: Theoph. Cont. V 3. She was carried off into captivity with her family by the Bulgars after the capture of Adrianopolis in 813 and eventually returned, perhaps in 836/838 (see Basilios 7); her husband died apparently soon afterwards and the family became dependent on Basilios 7; she is said at first to have opposed his plans to seek his fortune in Constantinople, but after portentous dreams, in one of which the prophet Elijah foretold that her son would become emperor, she relented and encouraged him; she is recorded in anecdotes about portents foretelling her son's future: Theoph. Cont. V 4-5, 7-8, 10.

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