Sisinnios 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E/M VIII |
| Dates | 742 (taq) / 743 (tpq) |
| Variant Names | Sisinnakios; Sisinakios |
| Locations | Thrakesioi (officeplace); Thrakesioi; Abydos (Hellespontus); Constantinople |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Strategos, Thrakesioi (office) |
| 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); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Sissiionios 3 was a cousin of the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7): Theoph. AM 6235 (ἐξάδελφόν τε αὐτοῦ ὄντα). Patrikios: Nic. Brev. de Boor 60, Mango 64, de Boor 62, Mango 66, Theoph. AM 6235 (Σισιννίου τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τῶν Θρᾳκησίων and Σισίννιον δέ, τὸν πατρίκιον καὶ στρατηγὸν τῶν Θρᾳκησίων). In 742 (or possibly 741, cf. Rochow, Theophanes, p. 145) he was strategos of the Thrakesioi, when he was summoned to join the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) and the Anatolikoi in opposing the rebellion of Artabasdos 1: Nic. Brev. dB 60, Mango 64:25-27 (μεταστέλλονται γοῦν καὶ Σισίννιον τὸν πατρίκιον καὶ σύμφωνα καθίστων ἅμα τῷ ὑπ' αὐτὸν στρατηγουμένῳ τῶν Θρᾳκησίων λεγομένῳ λαῷ), Theoph. AM 6233 (καὶ πρὸς Σισιννάκιον ἀποστέλλει εὐθὺς στρατηγὸν ὄντα τὸ τηνικαῦτα τοῦ θέματος τῶν Θρᾳκησίων), Zon. XV 5. 6 (τὸν τοῦ Θρακησίου (sc. στρατηγόν) τὸν Σισινάκιον). Still strategos of the Thrakesioi (Σισιννίου τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τῶν Θρακησίων), by September 743 he had crossed over via Abydos and had taken up position for Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) by the land-walls of Constantinople: Theoph. AM 6235. Soon after the overthrow of Artabasdos 1 (in 743), he was himself convicted of plotting against Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) and blinded: Nic. Brev. de Boor 62, Mango 66, Theoph. AM 6235 (Σισίννιον δέ, τὸν πατρίκιον καὶ στρατηγὸν τῶν Θρᾳκησίων). See further Rochow, Theophanes, pp. 147, 159, Konstantin V, p. 237, Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 82, Quellenstudien, 46-47. See Sisinnios 34.
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