Ioannes 522 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 788 (yaq) / 788 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 3055 |
| Locations | Lombardy |
| Titles | Logothetes of the Stratiotikon (office); Sakellarios (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) |
Ioannes 522 was sakellarios and logothetes of the stratiotikon, he was sent by Eirene 1 to Longibardia in 788 with the former king of the Lombards Theodotos (Adalgisos 1) to oppose the Frankish king Charlemagne (Karoulos 1); they joined forces with the strategos of Sicily, Theodoros 13, and met the Franks in battle but Ioannes 522 was captured by them and cruelly put to death: Theoph. AM 6281 (Ἰωάννην, τὸν σακελλάριον καὶ λογοθέτην τοῦ στρατιωτικοῦ). Cf. also Ioannes 14 and Ioannes 18.
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