Pasagnathes 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates652 (taq) / 651 (tpq)
PmbZ No.7293
EthnicityArmenian
LocationsArmenia;
Armenia (officeplace)
TitlesPatrikios (dignity)
Textual SourcesTheophanes 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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