Staurakios 5

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M IX
Dates820 (tpq) / 829 (taq)
ReligionChristian
LocationsConstantinople (residence);
Constantinople;
Olympus (Mt, Bithynia)
OccupationMonk
TitlesProtospatharios (dignity)
Textual SourcesVita Petri Atroensis, by Sabas the monk (BHG 2364), ed. V. Laurent, La Vie merveilleuse de Saint Pierre d'Atroa, Subsidia Hagiographica 29 (Brussels, 1956) (hagiography)

Staurakios 5 was a protospatharios (πρωτοσπαθάριόν τινα ὀνόματι Σταυράκιον); he lived in Constantinople and owned estates near Mt Olympus in Bithynia, whose management he entrusted to his kourator Eustathios 8; during the reign of Michael II (Michael 10) he was suspected of plotting against the emperor and received a warning of danger from Peter of Atroa (Petros 34), delivered to him in Constantinople by Eustathios 8; the emperor gave him a choice between death or becoming a monk, and he chose the latter and accepted the tonsure: Vita Petr. Atr. 57, pp. 177-179. The story is told among\n events of the reign of Michael 10. Possibly identical with Staurakios 26.

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