Theophanes 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexE
FloruitL VIII
Dates780 (taq) / 780 (ob.)
ReligionIconophile
LocationsMese (Constantinople);
Constantinople (deathplace);
Constantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople (residence);
Constantinople
TitlesKoubikoularios (office);
Parakoimomenos (office)
Textual SourcesTheophanes 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 Confessor and attained the crown of martyrdom (ὁ προρρηθεὶς Θεοφάνης ὁμολογητὴς γενόμενος καὶ τὸν στέφανον τοῦ μαρτυρίου κομισάμενος): Theoph. AM 6272 (Ἰάκωβος πρωτοσπαθάριος καὶ Παπίας καὶ Στρατήγιος καὶ Θεοφάνης οἱ κουβικουλάριοι καὶ παρακοιμώμενοι). See further Iakobos 1.

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