Paulos 5 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VII |
Dates | 687 (taq) / 686 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 5770 |
Titles | Magistrianos (office) |
Textual Sources | Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. G. Moravcsik, trans. R. J. H. Jenkins (Washington, D.C., 1967) (history); Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Paulos 5 was magistrianos (Παῦλον τὸν μαγιστριανὸν) and envoy of Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) to the caliph Abdulmalik 1 in 686/687; he negotiated a peace treaty under which the Mardaïtai were transferred from the Lebanon and the revenues of Cyprus, Armenia and Iberia were divided equally between the Arabs and the Romans: Theoph. AM 6178. Magistrianos; sent by Ioustinianos 1 to negotiate with Abd al-Malik (Abdulmalik 1) the withdrawal of the Mardaïtai from the Lebanon; he was presented with gifts by Abdulmalik 1: Const. Porph., DAI 22, 15ff. The
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