Komentiolos (brother of Phocas)

Komentiolos ( Middle Greek Κομεντίολος , Latin Comentiolus ; † 611 in Ankyra ) was an Eastern Roman general and rebel in the late late antiquity .

Life

Komentiolos was a son of Domentia , his brothers were the later Emperor Phocas and the magister officiorum Domentiolos. As patricius and magister militum he held the supreme command of the Roman Orient Army in the Persian War , when Phocas was overthrown by Herakleios on October 5, 610 and executed together with Domentiolus.

Komentiolos refused to recognize the new emperor. From his winter quarters in Ankyra, he planned an attack on Constantinople to avenge his brother's death and to succeed him. Herakleios pardoned the son of the same name of Domentiolos and sent the respected former general Philippikos as parliamentary . Komentiolos imprisoned Philippicus and threatened to execute him, but was murdered by the patricius Justin himself in early 611. With his death, the rebellion ended, which had posed a grave threat to Herakleios' as yet unsettled rule.

swell

• Harry Turtledove (Ed.): The Chronicle of Theophanes. An English Translation of Anni mundi 6095-6305 (AD 602-813). With introduction and notes. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA 1982, ISBN 0-8122-7842-9 .

literature

• Walter E. Kaegi: Heraclius. Emperor of Byzantium. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2003, ISBN 0-52181-459-6 , p. 53.
• John Robert Martindale: Comentiolus 2. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 3A, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-20160-8 , p. 326.

Web links

• Christos Makripoulias: Rebellion of Komentiolos, 610. In: Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor .