Bardanes Turkos

Bardanes (also Bardanios ), nickname Turkos ("the Turk"; Middle Greek Βαρδάνης ὁ Τοῦρκος , as a monk Sabbas ; † after 803 on Proti ), was a Byzantine general of Armenian origin who was proclaimed in 803 as the opposing emperor .

Life

The Patrikios , Senator and Strategos of the subject Anatolikon Bardanes was very likely already under Emperor Constantine VI. and then high state and military posts under Irene . In any case, Theophanes mentions a Patrikios and Domestikos or Comes of Scholai Bardanios for 797 and a Patrikios and Strategos of Thrakesion Bardanes for 799 , both of which are likely to be identical with Bardanes Turkos.

In July 803 an Abbasid army went on the offensive against Byzantine Anatolia . Bardanes gathered the troops of Asia Minor Issues in the area of Amorion , where the soldiers proclaimed him emperor between July 16 and 19; the subject of the Armeniakon refused allegiance to the usurper. Bardanes turned now with his army against Constantinople , but failed in the attempt to conquer Chrysopolis . On the mediation of a presbyter named Joseph, he surrendered to Emperor Nikephorus I after he and his followers had been guaranteed an amnesty . Bardanes was sheared to be a monk and banished with his family to a monastery on the prince island of Proti , his goods were confiscated . A short time later he was blinded , although it is unclear whether this was done on imperial orders. As a monk, Bardanes, now called Sabbas, is said to have subjected himself to extreme asceticism . The date of his death is unknown.

According to a legendary report, a monk is said to have prophesied the failure of his usurpation to Bardanes as well as the later coronation of his companions Leo , Michael and Thomas as emperors. Michael II's wife, Thekla, may have been his daughter.

swell

• Joseph Genesios 1, 6–8; 2.4
• Kedrenos 2.32-33
• Johannes Skylitzes 10
• Theophanes , pp. 470–471, 474 and 479 (in the edition by Carl de Boor )
• Theophanes Continuatus 1, 1–3
• John Zonaras 15:14

literature

• Alexander P. Kazhdan (Ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford University Press, New York NY 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 , pp. 255.
• Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 1: Aaron (# 1) - Georgios (# 2182). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-015179-0 , pp. 250-254 No. 766.
• Ilse Rochow: Byzantium in the 8th century as seen by Theophanes. Source-critical historical commentary on the years 715–813 (= Berlin Byzantine works. Vol. 57). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-05-000700-1 , pp. 280-281.
• Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 2: Baanes-Eznik of Kolb . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2008, ISBN 978-2-503-52377-4 , pp. 34-35.
• Warren T. Treadgold : The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1988, ISBN 0-8047-1462-2 , p. 480.