Eustathios 8

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates820 (tpq) / 829 (taq)
PmbZ No.1786
ReligionChristian
LocationsAtroa (Mt Olympus, Bithynia) (workplace);
Atroa (Mt Olympus, Bithynia) (residence);
Constantinople;
Hagios Zacharias (Monastery of, Bithynia);
Thrakesioi (birthplace)
OccupationEstate manager
TitlesKourator (office)
Textual SourcesVita Petri Atroensis, by Sabas the monk (BHG 2364), ed. V. Laurent, La Vie merveilleuse de Saint Pierre d'Atroa, Subsidia Hagiographica 29 (Brussels, 1956) (hagiography)

A native of the Thrakesioi theme, Eustathios 8 was a kourator serving under the protospatharios Staurakios 5 (Κουράτωρ τις ὀνόματι Εὐστάθιος, τῶν Θρᾳκησίων ὁρμώμενος, ἦν δουλεύων πρωτοσπαθάριόν τινα ὀνόματι Σταυράκιον); he once visited the monastery of Hagios Zacharias and was blessed by Peter of Atroa (Petros 34), before leaving for some estates of Staurakios 5 in the vicinity of Atroa of which he was manager (ἐν τοῖς προαστείοις οἷς ἐπεπίστευτο παρὰ τοῦ πρωτοσπαθαρίου); later Petros 34 summoned him and gave him a warning for his master, which he hastened to Constantinople to deliver: Vita Petr. Atr. 57. The event is narrated under the reign of the emperor Michael II (Michael 10).

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