Paulos 5

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VII
Dates687 (taq) / 686 (tpq)
PmbZ No.5770
TitlesMagistrianos (office)
Textual SourcesConstantine 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 magistriani were so-called because they originally served under the magister officiorum and the word was generally used of the (former) agentes in rebus, one of whose functions was to travel and deliver messages. Cf. also Sergios 45.

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