Thomas 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | E |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 780 (taq) / 780 (tpq) |
| Religion | Iconophile |
| Locations | Mese (Constantinople); Constantinople |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Titles | Koubikoularios (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) |
Thomas 3 the koubikoularios was one of several people (many of them koubikoularioi) (Λέων τε καὶ Θωμᾶς, κουβικουλάριοι καὶ οὗτοι) arrested for the veneration of icons 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; later they all, apart from Theophanes 2 who died, proved excellent monks (οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ πάντες μετὰ τὴν τούτου τελευτὴν δόκιμοι μοναχοὶ ἀνεδείχθησαν): Theoph. AM 6272. See further Iakobos 1.
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