Maurikios Chartularios

Maurikios Chartularios ( Latin Mauricius Cartularius ; † 643 near Ravenna ) was a Byzantine rebel in Italy .

Life

In 638, Emperor Herakleios asked the newly elected Pope Severinus to sign his Ecthesis , a monotheletic creed . When Severinus refused, Herakleios refused the Pope's recognition and sent his cartularius Maurikios to negotiate in Rome. After his arrival Maurikios occupied the Lateran with the support of the Roman army and plundered the papal palace. The exarch Isaakios , who had also rushed to Rome, confiscated the Lateran treasure for the emperor, keeping a considerable part for himself. Severinus was denied access to his official residence for almost two years.

In 643 Maurikios, meanwhile in the office of a Dux of Rome, wanted to repeat the looting operation. In order not to have to share the riches, he revolted against Isaacios and declared the Roman ducat to be independent of Emperor Konstans II. The exarch sent his magister militum Donus, who put down the revolt and sent Maurikios as a prisoner to Ravenna, where he even before reaching the City was beheaded as a usurper .

swell

• Raymond Davis: The Book of Pontiffs. The ancient Biographies of the first ninety Roman Bishops to AD 715. = Liber Pontificalis (= Translated Texts for Historians. Latin Series. Vol. 5). Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 1989, ISBN 0-85323-216-4 , pp. 65-69.

literature

• Walter E. Kaegi: Heraclius. Emperor of Byzantium. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2003, ISBN 0-521-81459-6 , pp. 272 ​​f.
• Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 3: Leon (# 4271) - Placentius (# 6265). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016673-9 , p. 198 No. 4894 .