Prokopios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VII |
| Dates | 651 (taq) / 650 (tpq) |
| Locations | Damascus; Constantinople |
| Textual Sources | Chronique de Denys de Tell-Mahré, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot (Paris, 1895); tr. A. Palmer, The Seventh Century in West-Syrian Chronicles (Liverpool, 1993), pp. 54-65 (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) |
Prokopios 1 was the envoy of Constans II (Konstans 1) to Mu`awiya 1 in 650/651; he negotiated a two-year peace: Theoph. AM 6142. In the year 964 Sel. (652/653) Gezirtha (Jazirah, i.e. Mesopotamia) was invaded by Habib (Abibus 1) and Prokopios 1 was sent to make peace with the Arabs: Pseudo-Dion., Chron., p. 152, 11ff. = p. 114.
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