Romanos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 711 (taq) / 711 (tpq) |
| Titles | Spatharios (dignity) |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (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) |
Romanos 1 was a spatharios in 711; he received the head of Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) from Elias 1 and took it to the new emperor Philippikos 1, who sent him to the West to display the head in Rome: Theoph. AM 6203 (p. 381) (διὰ Ῥωμανοῦ σπαθαρίου); cf. Nic. Brev. de Boor 47, Mango 45 (not naming Romanos 1).
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