Saburrus 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates663 (taq) / 663 (tpq)
LocationsNaples (Campania);
Forinus
Textual SourcesPaulus Diaconus, Historia Gentis Langobardorum, ed. L. Bethmann and G. Waitz, MGH, Scr. Rer. Lang., pp. 12-187; also in MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 48, pp. 49-242 (history)

Saburrus 1 was one of the leading notables with the army of the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1) at Naples in 663 ("unus ex eius optimatibus, cui nomen Saburrus erat"); he offered to lead twenty thousand of the emperor's troops against Romoald 1 (the dux of Beneventum) and defeat him; he took his men to Forinus and made camp there; Romoald 1 attacked him with his own men and some of the troops of his father Grimoald 3 and inflicted a crushing defeat on Saburrus 1, who returned to the emperor at Naples in disgrace and with only a few of his troops surviving: Paul. Diac., Hist. Lang. V 10. He is possibly identical with Saborios 1.

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