Ioannes 442 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| PmbZ No. | 457A, 3221 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Textual Sources | Theodoros Studites, Jamben auf verschiedene Gegenstände. Einleitung, kritischer Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar, ed. P. Speck, Supplementa Byzantina 1 (Berlin, 1968) (poetry) |
Ioannes 442 was the son of the patrikios Leo 258 and Anna 9, with whom he founded the female monastery of Ignai: Theod. Stud., Epigrammata 120 (cf. lines 7-8 αὐτῆς γε ταύτης καὶ Λέοντος συζύγου, μεθ' ὧν Ἰωάννου τε, φιλτάτου τέκνου). He had brothers and/or sisters with whom, like their parents, he followed the monastic life: Theod. Stud., Epigrammata 115.4-5 (καὶ τὸν μονήρους ἀσπάσασθαι σὺν τέκνοις βίον φαεινὸν οὐρανοκτήτου κλέους. See Speck, Jamben, pp. 310ff.
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