Theophanes 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VIII |
Dates | 788 (taq) / 788 (tpq) |
Locations | Armeniakoi; Constantinople |
Titles | Protospatharios (dignity) |
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 3 was a protospatharios in 788, when he was sent away by Eirene 1 when the empress cancelled an agreement with the Franks betrothing Constantine V (Konstantinos 8) to Charlemagne's (Karoulos 1) daughter Rotrud (Erythro 1): Theoph. AM 6281 (Θεοφάνην τὸν πρωτοσπαθάριον). The text suggests that he was sent to bring Maria 2 from the Armeniakoi to Constantinople.
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