Theophanes 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | E |
Floruit | L VIII |
Dates | 780 (taq) / 780 (ob.) |
Religion | Iconophile |
Locations | Mese (Constantinople); Constantinople (deathplace); Constantinople (officeplace); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
Titles | Koubikoularios (office); Parakoimomenos (office) |
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) |
Theophanes 2 was koubikoularios and parakoimomenos; he was one of several people (many of them koubikoularioi) arrested for image worshipping during Lent 780 by the emperor Leo IV (Leo 4); they were beaten and tonsured and put on display in the Mese before being imprisoned; Theophanes 2 was the only one to die under the ill-treatment and, according to Theophanes, became a
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