Romanos 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 811 (taq) / 811 (ob.) |
| Locations | Bulgaria (deathplace); Bulgaria; Anatolikoi; Anatolikoi (officeplace) |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Strategos, Anatolikoi (office) |
| Textual Sources | 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 2 was patrikios and strategos of the Anatolikoi in 811 (καὶ Ῥωμανός, πατρίκιος καὶ στρατηγὸς τῶν ἀνατολικῶν); he accompanied the expedition led by the emperor Nikephoros 8 against the Bulgars and was one of the leading persons (τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ μεγιστάνων) who perished with the emperor in the defeat of 26 July 811: Theoph. AM 6303.
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