Konstantinos 12 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII |
| Dates | 780 (taq) / 780 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 3826 |
| Titles | Spatharios (dignity); Domestikos, Exkoubita (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) |
Konstantinos 12 was described as ὁ τοῦ βικαρίου; he was a spatharios and domestikos of the Exkoubitores in late 780 (Κωνσταντῖνός τε, ὁ τοῦ βικαρίου σπαθάριος καὶ δομέστικος τῶν ἐκσκουβιτόρων: Theoph. AM 6273); he was one of the leaders of a conspiracy formed in October 780 against the new emperor Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8) and his mother Eirene 1, which aimed to put Nikephoros 5 on the throne; he was one of those arrested, beaten and tonsured and sent into exile: Theoph. AM 6273. See Gregorios 11.
Bikarios is perhaps a personal name and denotes the father of Konstantinos 12; see Bikarios 1, but on the problem of bikarios as a name or title, cf. Theodoros 10.
On Konstantinos 12, cf. Haldon, Byzantine Praetorians, pp. 355-356 with p. 622, n. 1071. He was probably a domestikos of the Exkoubitores with the dignity of spatharios.
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