Ioannes 10

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE VIII
Dates715 (taq) / 715 (ob.)
PmbZ No.2961
ReligionChristian
LocationsRhodos (Insulae) (deathplace);
Hagia Sophia (Constantinople);
Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) (officeplace);
Constantinople (residence);
Constantinople;
Rhodos (Insulae)
TitlesDeacon, Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) (office);
Logothetes, Genikon (office)
Textual SourcesAnastasius Bibliothecarius, Chronographia Tripartita (Latin translation of the Chronographia of Theophanes), ed. C. de Boor, Theophanes, Chronographia II (Leipzig, 1885), pp. 31-346 (chronicle);
Bar Hebraeus, Chronographia, tr. E. A. W. Budge, The Chronography of Abu 'l-Faraj (London, 1932; repr. Amsterdam, 1976) (history);
Chronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
Georgius Monachus, Chronicon, ed. C. de Boor, corr. P. Wirth (Stuttgart, 1978) (chronicle);
Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle);
Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history);
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);
Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history)
Seal SourcesLaurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981);
Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972).

Ioannes 10 was known as pope Ioannakios: Theoph. AM 6207 (τὸν ἐπιλεγόμενον παπᾶν Ἰωαννάκιν; the text is restored from the translation of Anastasius Bibliothecarius - "qui dicebatur papa Iohannacis"; cf. also Leo Gramm. 171, Georg. Mon., p. 627, cited below).

Deacon of Hagia Sophia and logothetes of the genikon, he was appointed by the emperor Anastasius (Anastasios 6) in 715 to command a naval expedition from Rhodes against the Arabs; described as prudent and experienced (in Nicephorus); while the expedition was making ready at Rhodes, the troops of the Opsikion refused to take part; they rebelled and Ioannes 10 was murdered by them: Nic. Brev. de Boor 51, Mango 50 (τούτοις ἡγεμόνα ἐφίστησιν Ἰωάννην διάκονον τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας καὶ τῶν δημοσίων φόρων λογιστήν, ὃν λογοθέτην γενικὸν οἶδε καλεῖν ἡ συνήθεια), Theoph. AM 6207 (προεβάλετο στρατηγὸν καὶ κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν τὸν διάκονον Ἰωάννην τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας, τὸν ἐπιλεγόμενον παπᾶν Ἰωαννάκιν τὸ τηνικαῦτα λογοθέτην γενικὸν ὑπάρχοντα), Zon. XIV 27. 4-7 (προβαλόμενος ἄρχοντα τοῦ στόλου παντὸς Ἰωάννην τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας διάκονον καὶ γενικὸν λογοθέτην), cf. Leo Gramm. 171 (μετὰ κληρικοῦ ὀνόματι Ἰωάννην, ὃν καὶ Ἰωαννάκην ἐκάλεσαν), Georg. Mon., p. 627, Chron. 1234, §156 (p. 300) (unnamed commander, killed by his troops). Unnamed commander (resh hon) of the army sent by the emperor Anastasius (Anastasios 6) to the West (sic); he was murdered when the army rebelled and proclaimed Theodosios 2 as emperor: Bar Hebr., p. 107. He is presumably to be identified with Ioannes deacon and genikos logothetes who owned a seal dateable to the early eighth century: Zacos and Veglery 2007 = Laurent, Corpus II, no. 278. The name and titles read: Ἰωάννῃ διακόνῳ καὶ γενικῷ λογοθέτῃ. Cf. Ioannes 386. See Beck, "Kirche und Klerus im staatlichen Leben von Byzanz", REB 24 (1966), p. 6 and R. Guilland, "Les Logothètes", REB 29 (1971), p. 21, n. 9.

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