Johannes (son of Mizizios)
Johannes ( Middle Greek Ἰωάννης Ioannes , Iwannis ; † 678 in Syracuse ?) Was an alleged son of the Byzantine Patrikios Mizizios , who had proclaimed himself counter-emperor in Syracuse in 668 .
John is only mentioned in the sources for Michael the Syrian . Accordingly, he is said to have rebelled against Emperor Constantine IV in Sicily at the time when the Mardaites established themselves in the border area between Arabs and Byzantines, ie around 678 . He was able to last seven months until Constantine came to Sicily and killed him. The news is not confirmed by either Theophanes , Agapios, or the Chronicle of 1234 . In the prosopography of the Middle Byzantine period , it is assumed that the Syrian chronicler misunderstood his model and inadvertently produced a duplicate of the events of 668.
swell
- Michael the Syrian 2, 455
literature
- Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 2: Georgios (# 2183) - Leon (# 4270). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016672-0 , p. 193 No. 2706 .
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| SURNAME | John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Iwannis; Ἰωάννης (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | alleged Byzantine usurper in Sicily |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 678 |
| Place of death | unsure: Syracuse |