Bardas 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 780 (taq) / 780 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 779 |
| Locations | Armeniakoi (officeplace); Armeniakoi |
| 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) |
In late 780 Bardas 2 was a former strategos of the Armeniakoi (Βάρδας, ὅ ποτε στρατηγὸς τῶν Ἀρμενιακῶν); he was one of the leaders of a conspiracy formed in October 780 (see Gregorios 11) against the new emperor Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8) and his mother Eirene 1, which aimed to put Nikephoros 5 on the throne; he was among those arrested and beaten, then tonsured and exiled: Theoph. AM 6273.
(Publishable link for this person: http://www.pbe.kcl.ac.uk/person/p1654)