Petronas 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VII |
| PmbZ No. | 5909 |
| Textual Sources | Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (chronicle); 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) |
With Phloros 1 and Kyprianos 1, Petronas 1 commanded a Roman army (ἐχόντων δύναμιν Ῥωμαϊκήν) which defeated an Arab army under Sufyan 1: Theoph. AM 6165, cf. Mich. Syr. II 455 (three unnamed "patricians"). The date is uncertain, probably 673/678; see Sufyan 1.
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