Bardas 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 792 (taq) / 792 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 782 |
| Locations | Markellai (Thrace) (deathplace); Markellai (Thrace) |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity) |
| 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) |
Bardas 3 was a patrikios (Βάρδαν πατρίκιον); Bardas 3 was one of the Roman leaders (τῶν ἐν τέλει) killed in the battle of Markellai on 20 July, 792, when the Bulgars heavily defeated and routed Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8): Theoph. AM 6284. Possibly identical with either Bardas 1 or Bardas 2. Cf. Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, p. 115.
(Publishable link for this person: )