Elissaios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | E |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 782 (taq) / 782 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 1509 |
| Locations | Francia (officeplace); Francia (residence); Francia |
| Titles | Notarios (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) |
Elissaios 1 was a eunuch and notarios (τὸν εὐνοῦχον καὶ νοτάριον); in 782, after the betrothal of Erythro 1, daughter of Charlemagne (Karoulos 1), to the emperor Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8), Elissaios 1 was left behind at the Frankish court to instruct Erythro 1 in the language and customs of the Byzantine empire: Theoph. AM 6274 (κατέλιπον Ἐλισσαῖον τὸν εὐνοῦχον καὶ νοτάριον πρὸς τὸ διδάξαι αὐτὴν τά τε τῶν Γραικῶν γράμματα καὶ τὴν γλῶσσαν, καὶ παιδεῦσαι αὐτὴν τὰ ἤθη τῆς Ῥωμαίων βασιλείας). For a suggestion that he served as a translator under the logothetes of the dromos, see D.A. Miller, "The Logothete of the Drome", Byz 36 (1966), p. 453. Cf. Konstaes 1 and Mamalos 1.
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