Petros 140

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitE IX
Dates803 (taq) / 803 (tpq)
PmbZ No.6066
ReligionChristian
LocationsRome;
Constantinople;
Salz (Francia)
OccupationHegoumenos
Textual SourcesAnnales Einhardenses, ed. F. Kurze, MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 6 (1895), pp. 3-115 (annals);
Annales Fuldenses, ed. F. Kurze, MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 7 (1891); ed. anmd German trans. R. Rau, Quellen zur karolingischen Reichsgeschitchte III (Darmstadt, 1960), pp. 19-117 (annals);
Annales Maximiani, ed. G. Waitz, MGH, SS 13 (1881; repr. Leipzig, 1943), pp. 19-25 (annals);
Annales Mettenses Priores et Posteriores, ed. B. de Simson, MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 10 (1905) (annals);
Annales Regni Francorum, ed. F. Kurze, MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 6 (1895; repr. 1950) (annals);
Annales Sithienses, ed. G. Waitz, MGH, SS 13 (1881), pp. 34-38 (annals);
Dandolo, Andrea, Chronicon Venetum, ed. E. Pastorello, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores XII, 2nd ed., (1938-42) (chronicle);
MGH, Epistulae (letters)

Petros 140 was a hegoumenos (abbas) and was one of the three envoys sent by the emperor Nikephoros I (Nikephoros 8) in 803 to discuss peace with Charlemagne (Karoulos 1); the two others were Michael 6 and Kallistos 16; they accompanied the Frankish envoys Iesse 1 and Helmgaud (Helmgoth 1) and met Charlemagne at Salz on the river Saale; they obtained from him a letter with peace proposals and returned to Constantinople via Rome: Annales Regni Francorum s.a. 803 ("quorum nomina fuerunt Michahel episcopus, Petrus abbas et Calistus candidatus"), Annales Einhard. 191, 3, Annales Fuld. 353, 8, Annales Max. 23, 29, Annales Mett. 32, 44, Annales Sith. 37, 5, MGH, Epp. IV 547, 15, Dandolo, Chron. Ven. 150E. Petros 140 is probably identical with Petros 12.

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