Petros 12 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 806 (taq) / 806 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 6066 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Goulaion (Monastery of) (officeplace); Goulaion (Monastery of) (residence); Goulaion (Monastery of) |
| Occupation | Hegoumenos; Monk |
| Titles | Hegoumenos, Goulaion (office) |
| Textual Sources | Theodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters); 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) |
Petros 12 was hegoumenos of the monastery of Goulaion (Πέτρον, τὸν ἡγούμενον τοῦ Γουλαίου); in 806 he served on an embassy sent by the emperor Nikephoros I (Nikephoros 8) to arrange a peace with the caliph Harun al-Rashid (Harun 1); the leader of the embassy was Michael 6 and the other envoy was Gregorios 13: Theoph. AM 6298. The location of the monastery seems to be unknown. He is perhaps to be identified with the unnamed hegoumenos of the monastery of Goulaion, who suffered persecution through the intrigues of the oikonomos Ioseph 2 and defected: Theod. Stud., Ep. 222 (summer/autumn 816; ὁ Γουλαιάτης), Ep. 495 (824/826; ὁ τοῦ Γουλαίου, sc. ἡγούμενος). Probably identical with Petros 140.
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