Sicon 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E VIII |
Ethnicity | Lombard |
Locations | Sipontum (Apulia); Bari (Apulia); Beneventum (Campania); Sipontum (Apulia) (officeplace); Bari (Apulia) (officeplace); Beneventum (Campania) (officeplace) |
Titles | Governor, Beneventum (Campania), Bari (Apulia) and Sipontum (Apulia) (office) |
Textual Sources | Constantine 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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