Saborios

Saborios or Saborius ( Greek Σαβώριος, † 668 ) was an Eastern Roman-Byzantine general and usurper .

Life

Saborios perhaps Persian descent: His name is apparently a Greek version of the Persian name Shapur , and Theophanes (AM 6159) explicitly calls him "of Persian origin" (Περσογενής), although it mostly as Armenians or in modern research Persarmenier is considered . Depending on how one understands the expression ὁ τῶν Ἀρμενιάκων στρατηγός in Theophanes, Saborios either still acted as magister militum per Armeniam or already as strategos of the topic of Armeniacon . In any case, in 667 he rebelled against Emperor Konstans II , who was in Sicily at the time.

The sources report quite extensively about this event. It can be assumed that in this context Theophanes, Agapios of Hierapolis and several Syrian-Christian chroniclers have resorted to a common main source, apparently the now lost Chronicle of Theophilos of Edessa .

Saborios negotiated through his agent Sergios with the caliph Muʿāwiya I. Sergios also met Andreas, an imperial ambassador, at the court of the caliph. Muʿāwiya finally promised Saborios military support against Konstans II. Before it came to decisive fighting, however, Saborios died. He had left Melitene with his army and made his way to Constantinople when he had a fatal accident in a riding accident. The uprising then collapsed. The Arab troops no longer intervened effectively, although the caliph was able to benefit from the turmoil in the empire for a short time. The Arabs conquered Amorion , but shortly afterwards it was conquered by the aforementioned Andreas in a flick; Andreas had apparently arranged the death of Sergios beforehand.

literature

Saborios, no.6476 . In: Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 4: Plato (# 6266) - Theophylaktos (# 8345). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-016674-7 , p. 72.

Remarks

↑ See for example John Haldon: Byzantium in the Seventh Century. The Transformation of a Culture . 2nd ed., Cambridge 1997, p. 62; Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Vol. 3 (1991), p. 1824.
^ Translated sources by: Robert G. Hoyland (Ed.): Theophilus of Edessa's Chronicle and the Circulation of Historical Knowledge in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. Liverpool 2011, pp. 153ff.
↑ See also James Howard-Johnston : Witnesses to a World Crisis on this episode originally handed down by Theophilos . Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century . Oxford 2010, p. 224.

personal data
SURNAME	Saborios
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Eastern Roman-Byzantine general and usurper
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century
DATE OF DEATH	668

[1] See for example John Haldon: Byzantium in the Seventh Century. The Transformation of a Culture . 2nd ed., Cambridge 1997, p. 62; Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Vol. 3 (1991), p. 1824.

[2] Translated sources by: Robert G. Hoyland (Ed.): Theophilus of Edessa's Chronicle and the Circulation of Historical Knowledge in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. Liverpool 2011, pp. 153ff.

[3] See also James Howard-Johnston : Witnesses to a World Crisis on this episode originally handed down by Theophilos . Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century . Oxford 2010, p. 224.