Pasagnathes 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M VII |
Dates | 652 (taq) / 651 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 7293 |
Ethnicity | Armenian |
Locations | Armenia; Armenia (officeplace) |
Titles | Patrikios (dignity) |
Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Pasagnathes 1 was also known as Theodoros Rshtuni (PLRE III, Theodorus 167). The patrikios of the Armenians (Πασαγνάθης, ὁ τῶν Ἀρμενίων πατρίκιος), in 651/652 he revolted from the Romans and made a treaty with Mu`awiya 1, sending his own son (Anonymus 1) as hostage; Constans II (Konstans 1) abandoned hope of recovering Armenia: Theoph. AM 6143.
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