Johannes Rizocopus

Johannes Rizocopus was an Eastern Roman Patricius and Exarch of Ravenna around 710.

After the uprising against the exarch Theophylactus , there are some indications that in the first years of the second reign of Justinian II (705–711) there was again no exarch in Italy. It was not until Pope Constantine I was traveling to the emperor in Constantinople (October 710) that he was received by the exarch Johannes Rizocopus in Naples. After the Pope's onward journey, Johannes Rizocopus went to Ravenna via Rome, where he had several dignitaries of the Pope executed. Here he died, as the Liber Pontificalis reports, as punishment for his crimes, an extremely shameful death. A certain Georgios had led a rebellion and declared Ravenna independent from Constantinople. The uprising, which other places of the exarchate also joined, may not have been put down until Emperor Philippikos Bardanes .

literature

Friedhelm Winkelmann u. a .: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine period . 1. Department, Volume 2, De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin-New York 2000, p. 250, No. 2953.

Remarks

↑ Le Liber pontificalis . Texts, introduction et commentaire par L. Duchesne, I – II, Paris 1886. 1892 (Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, Sér. II 3); III: Additions et corrections de Mgr. L. Duchesne, publ. par C. Vogel, Paris 1957.

predecessor	Office	successor
Theophylactus	Exarchs of Ravenna-Italy	Scolasticius

personal data
SURNAME	Johannes Rizocopus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Johannes Rhizocopus; John Rhizokopos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine exarch of Ravenna
DATE OF BIRTH	before 710
DATE OF DEATH	7th century or 8th century

[1] Le Liber pontificalis . Texts, introduction et commentaire par L. Duchesne, I – II, Paris 1886. 1892 (Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, Sér. II 3); III: Additions et corrections de Mgr. L. Duchesne, publ. par C. Vogel, Paris 1957.