Konstantinos 30

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM IX
Dates838 (taq) / 845 (ob.)
PmbZ No.3932
ReligionChristian
LocationsSyria (residence);
Amorion (Galatia);
Dorylaion (Phrygia);
Samarra (deathplace)
TitlesMagistros (both);
Patrikios (dignity);
Droungarios of the vigla (office)
Textual SourcesGeorgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history);
Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1209), ed. B. Vasilievskii and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l'Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7.2 (1905), pp. 38-56 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1210), ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7. 2 (1905), pp. 38-56 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1211) (ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7.2 (1905), 1-7; ed. Latyshev, Menologium I 190-97 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1212), ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7.2 (1905), pp. 8-21 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1213) (ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7.2 (1905), pp. 22-36 (hagiography);
Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1214) (ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7. 2 (1905), pp. 61-78 (hagiography);
Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history);
Scylitzes, Ioannes, Synopsis Historiarum, ed. J. Thurn (Berlin, 1973) (history);
Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history);
Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history)

Konstantinos 30 was also known as Baboutzikos (Κωνσταντίνῳ τῷ κατὰ τὸν Βαβούτζικον): Theoph. Cont. IV 22 (p. 175), cf. Scyl., p. 98 (Κονσταντινος ὁ Βαβουτζικος). Konstantinos: Theoph. Cont. III 36 (p. 134), Leo Gramm. 224, Ps.-Symeon 638, Georg. Mon. Cont. 805, Mart. XLII Amor., passim, Scyl., p. 78, Zon. XV 29. 18. Baboutzikos: Theoph. Cont. III 30 (p. 126), Scyl., p. 75. Baboutzikos was the family name; cf. Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 163-164.

He married Sophia 1, sister of the empress Theodora 2: Theoph. Cont. IV 22 (p. 175), Scyl., p. 98. He was therefore brother-in-law of the emperor Theophilos 5. The marriage must have been earlier than 838 (see below). At the time he was a magistros: Scyl., p. 98 (εἰς μαγίστρους τελοῦντι). In 838, when Amorion was threatened by the Arabs, Theophilos 5 sent reinforcements to the troops in Amorion from the army present with him in Dorylaion; they were under the command of Theodoros 67 Krateros, Theophilos 6 and Baboutzikos (τὸν Βαβούτζικον): Theoph. Cont. III 30 (p. 126), Scyl., p. 75. They were probably commanders of the tagmata, and, since Konstantinos 30 was a patrikios and a droungarios (see below), he was presumably the droungarios of the Vigla. A droungarios, he was one of the Roman army commanders captured in Amorion in 838 and carried away into captivity in Syria by the Arabs: Leo Gramm. 224, Ps.-Symeon 638, Georg. Mon. Cont. 805 (all read Κωνσταντῖνος δρουγγάριος), Scyl., p. 78 (one of the army commanders and patrikioi captured at Amorion), Zon. XV 29. 18 (one of the patrikioi).

He was one of the forty-two martyrs of Amorion, who were executed by the Arabs on 6 March 845, at Samarra, after seven years of captivity when they persisted in refusing to deny their faith: Mart. XLII Amor., passim, Leo Gramm. 224-225, Ps.-Symeon 638, Georg. Mon. Cont. 805, Theoph. Cont. III 30 (p. 126), 35 (pp. 132-134), Scyl., p. 98. He was a patrikios: Mart. XLII Amor., pp. 5, 22 50, Theoph. Cont. III 35-36 (pp. 132-134), Scyl., p. 78, Zon. XV 29. 18. He had a secretary (notarios) with him, also called Konstantinos (Konstantinos 31): Mart. XLII Amor., pp. 5, 72, Theoph. Cont. III 35 (p. 132). He was apparently the highest in rank of all the martyrs: Theoph. Cont. III 36 (p. 134) (invited to go first; πρόκριτος εἶναι πάντων ἡμῶν πρὸς τὸν ἐπὶ γῆς βασιλέα λαχών), Mart. XLII Amor., p. 6 (the former priest Theodoros 67 was martyred first, then Konstantinos 30, then the others κατὰ τὰς ἀρχικὰς ἐξουσίας). Also mentioned among the forty-two martyrs: Mart. XLII Amor., pp. 1, 8, 29, cf. 79ff. (named in hymns).

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