Sicon 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE VIII
EthnicityLombard
LocationsSipontum (Apulia);
Bari (Apulia);
Beneventum (Campania);
Sipontum (Apulia) (officeplace);
Bari (Apulia) (officeplace);
Beneventum (Campania) (officeplace)
TitlesGovernor, Beneventum (Campania), Bari (Apulia) and Sipontum (Apulia) (office)
Textual SourcesConstantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. G. Moravcsik, trans. R. J. H. Jenkins (Washington, D.C., 1967) (history)

Sicon 1 was brother (actually father) of Sicardus 1, he was made governor of Beneventum, Bari and Sipontum when South Italy was divided among the Lombards: Const. Porph., DAI 27, 55ff. He lived in the early eighth century.

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