Bardanes 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 772 (taq) / 772 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 778 |
| Ethnicity | Armenian |
| Locations | Armeniakoi; Armeniakoi (officeplace); Isauria |
| Titles | Strategos, 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) |
The name is Armenian (Vardan). In 772 Bardanes 2 was the strategos of the Armeniakoi (Βαρδάνην τὸν τῶν Ἀρμενιακῶν sc. στρατηγὸν); on orders from the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) Bardanes 2, Michael 4 and Manes 2 marched against Banakas 1 in Isauria; they occupied the narrow passes which lay on his route home but were defeated by Banakas 1 and routed with heavy losses: Theoph. AM 6263.
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