Sklabounos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 765 (taq) / 765 (tpq) |
| Ethnicity | Slav |
| Locations | Bulgaria |
| 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) |
Sklabounos 1 was the ruler of the Seberoi in Bulgaria (τὸν Σεβέρων ἄρχοντα Σκλαβοῦνον), he was responsible for many misfortunes in Thrace; in 765 he was kidnapped in Bulgaria in a surprise raid by agents of the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7): Theoph. AM 6256. The Seberoi was perhaps a Slavonic tribe subject to the Bulgars and Sklabounos their ruler; cf. Browning, Byzantium and Bulgaria, p. 127.
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