Anonymus 740 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| 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); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Anonymus 740 was betrothed to Theophano 1 and allegedly already living with her when in December 807 she was selected at a bride show and married to Staurakios 2, son of the emperor Nicephorus I (Nikephoros 8): Theoph. AM 6300, Zon. XV 14. 19 (τῷ δὲ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ Σταυρακίῳ ἀγαγέσθαι γυναῖκα ὁ βασιλεὺς βουληθεὶς Θεοφανὼ τὴν Ἀθηναίαν, προσγενῆ τῆς βασιλίσσης Εἰρήνης οὖσαν καὶ ἤδη κατηγγυημένην ἀνδρί, διαζεύξας αὐτοῦ ἀθέσμως τῷ Σταυρακίῳ συνέζευξε).
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