Symbatios 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L IX |
| Dates | 867 (taq) / 867 (tpq) |
| Locations | Constantinople; Hagia Euphemia Eumorphos (Monastery of) (burialplace) |
| Textual Sources | Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Ceremoniis Aulae Byzantinae Libri II, ed. J. J. Reiske, CSHB (Bonn, 1829); also ed. (in part) A. Vogt (Paris, 1935, repr. 1967) (history); Georgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history) |
Symbatios 2 was brother of the emperor Basil I (Basilios 7); in 867 he assisted at the murder of the emperor Michael III (Michael 11): Georg. Mon. Cont. 837 (Συμβάτιος ὁ ἀδελφὸς Βασιλείου). Cf. Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 87, 88, 92-93. Brother of Basilios 7 and Marianos 4, and son or stepson of Pankalo 1; uncle of Anastasia, Anna and Helene (all in PBE II); Symbatios 2 and Marianos 4 were buried in one sarcophagus in the Monastery of St Euphemia, known as Eumorphos (The Beautiful) in Constantinople (in the district of Petrion, see Janin, Eglises, 127-129), where Basilios 7's mother Pankalo 1 and his daughters Anastasia, Anna and Helene were also buried, and where later Zoe the mother of the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus was also buried: Const. Porph., De Cer. II 42 (Reiske, 648-649).
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