Ioannes 17 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 796 (taq) / 796 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 3112 |
| Locations | Constantinople; Sakkoudion (Monastery of, Bithynia); Opsikion (officeplace); Opsikion |
| Titles | Komes, Opsikion (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); Vita B Theodori Studitae, Auctore Michaele Monacho Studita (BHG 1754), PG. 99. 233-328 (hagiography); Vita C Theodori Studitae, Auctore Incerto (BHG 1755d), ed. B. Latyshev, "Vita S. Theodori Studitae in codice Mosquensi musei Rumianzoviani no 520", VV 21 (1914), pp. 258-304 (hagiography) |
Ioannes 17 was komes of the Opsikion (Ἰωάννην, τὸν κόμητα τοῦ Ὀψικίου), in 796 he and the domestikos of the Scholai Bardanes 3 were sent by the emperor Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8) to bring the hegoumenos of Sakkoudion, Platon 1, back to Constantinople: Theoph. AM 6288. Unnamed strategos (komes) of the Opsikion, in 795/796 he and Bardanes 3, acting on orders from the emperor Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8), punished Platon 1 and sent Theodore the Stoudite (Theodoros 15) and ten of his followers into exile to Thessalonike for protesting at the emperor's divorce and subsequent second marriage: Vita B Theod. Stud. 253C (τὸν στρατηγὸν τοῦ ὀψικίου), Vita C Theod. Stud §19, p. 268 (σὺν τῷ στρατηγῷ τοῦ ὀψικίου).
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