Leo 5 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 759 (taq) / 759 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 4306 |
| Locations | Beregaba (deathplace); Beregaba; Thrakesioi (officeplace); Thrakesioi |
| Titles | Patrikios (office); Strategos, Thrakesioi (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) |
In 759 Leo 5 was patrikios and strategos of the Thrakesioi (Λέοντα, πατρίκιον καὶ στρατηγὸν τῶν Θρᾳκησίων); he was one of the many who were killed when the Bulgars defeated the army of the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) in battle at the kleisoura at Beregaba: Theoph. AM 6251. On the date of the battle (760 or 762/3), cf. also Rochow, Theophanes 175f. Possibly identical with the owner(s) of several seals; see Leo 201 and Leo 208, and cf. Rochow, Konstantin V, pp. 223-224.
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