Phausta 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | F |
| Floruit | M VII |
| PmbZ No. | 6119 |
| Locations | Constantinople; Constantinople (residence); Justinian (Mausoleum of) (burialplace) |
| Textual Sources | Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Ceremoniis Aulae Byzantinae Libri II, ed. J. J. Reiske, CSHB (Bonn, 1829); also ed. (in part) A. Vogt (Paris, 1935, repr. 1967) (history); 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); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Phausta 1 was the wife of the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1); in 661/662 she was living in Constantinople with her three sons Konstantinos 2, Heraklios 1 and Tiberios 1; the inhabitants refused to allow them to leave to join Constans II (Konstans 1) in the West: Theoph. AM 6153, Zon. XIV 19. 31 (διὸ καὶ τὴν βασίλισσαν καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ (τρεῖς δ' ἦσαν, Κωνσταντῖνος, Ἡράκλειος καὶ Τιβέριος) μετεκαλεῖτο sc. Konstans 1 πρὸς ἑαυτόν).
Like Konstans 1, Phausta 1 was buried in the Mausoleum of Justinian at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople: Const. Porph., Cer. II 42 (Reiske, 644). Her name is recorded only in Const. Porph., Cer. II 42.
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