Balgitzis 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VII/E VIII |
| Dates | 698 (tpq) / 705 (taq) |
| PmbZ No. | 740 |
| Ethnicity | Khazar |
| Locations | Bosporos (Tauric Chersonese) (officeplace); Bosporos (Tauric Chersonese) (residence); Bosporos (Tauric Chersonese) |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (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) |
Balgitzis 1 was an unnamed ruler of the Scythian Bosporos in Nic. Brev. de Boor 41, lines 21-2, Mango 42 (τῷ ἄρχοντι τῷ τοῦ Βοσπόρου τοῦ Σκυθικοῦ), he is named as Balgitzis, ruler of the Bosphoros in Theoph. AM 6195 (Βαλγίτζιν τὸν ἄρχοντα Βοσφόρου). Balgitzis 1 was ordered by the khagan of the Khazars (Anonymus 176) to murder the exiled emperor Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) (in 698/705); Balgitzis 1 was himself murdered by Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1): Theoph. AM 6196, Nic. Brev. de Boor 41, Mango 42 (unnamed). The date was in the reign of Tiberios 2 Apsimar. Balgitzis 1 was probably a Khazar. See also Papatzys 1.
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