Theophylaktos 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 766 (taq) / 766 (tpq) |
| Religion | Iconophile |
| Locations | Ikonion (Lycaonia) (residence); Thrace (officeplace); Thrace; Constantinople; Ikonion (Lycaonia); Ikonion (Lycaonia) (birthplace) |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Protospatharios (dignity); Strategos, Thrace (office) |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history); 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) |
Theophylaktos 2 was a native of Ikonion (Θεοφύλακτος ὁ Ἰκονιάτης): Theoph. AM 6257. In 766 he was protospatharios and strategos of Thrake (Θεοφύλακτος ὁ Ἰκονιάτης πρωτοσπαθάριος καὶ στρατηγὸς τῆς Θρᾴκης): Theoph. AM 6257. He was also a patrikios (ἐν τοῖς πατρικίοις καὶ στρατηγοῖς διατελῶν): Nic. Brev. de Boor 74, Mango 83:14. He was one of the nineteen high officials of the empire accused of opposing the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) and paraded in the hippodrome on 25 August 766; he was among those who were condemned to death but after an outcry were instead blinded and exiled and condemned to an annual flogging: Nic. Brev. de Boor 74, Mango 83, Theoph. AM 6257. Possibly an opponent of the emperor's iconoclast policies. See Rochow, Konstantin V, p. 243 and cf. Konstantinos 6.
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