Andronikos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VIII |
Dates | 793 (taq) / 793 (ob.) |
PmbZ No. | 431 |
Locations | Armeniakoi (officeplace); Armeniakoi |
Occupation | Soldier |
Titles | Spatharios (dignity); Tourmarches, Armeniakoi (office) |
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) |
In 793 Andronikos 1 was spatharios and tourmarches of the Armeniakoi when they were in rebellion against the emperor Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8); after the emperor defeated the Armeniakoi on 26 May 793, Andronikos 1 was captured and executed, together with Theophilos 4 and Gregorios 30: Theoph. AM 6285 (Ἀνδρόνικον, σπαθάριον καὶ τουρμάρχην αὐτῶν).
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