Leo 14 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | E |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 802 (taq) / 802 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 4408 |
| Locations | Constantinople (officeplace); Sinope (Helenopontus); Constantinople; Sinope (Helenopontus) (birthplace) |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Sakellarios (office) |
| Textual Sources | Cedrenus, Georgius. Synopsis Historion, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838-39) (history); 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) |
Leo 14 was a native of Sinope, he was a eunuch; in 802 he was patrikios and sakellarios when on 31 October he supported the overthrow of the empress Eirene 1 by Nikephoros 8 (Λέοντος, φημί, εὐνούχου πατρικίου καὶ σακελλαρίου τοῦ Σινωπέως); he was one of those most strongly criticised in Theophanes because he had received great riches from the empress Eirene 1 and had expressed the greatest loyalty to her; his motive for supporting Nikephoros 8 is attributed to sheer greed: Theoph. AM 6295. Cedrenus (II 29,11ff) records the same events and calls this man Λέων ὁ Κλόκας.
A seal which Schlumberger, Sig., p. 648, dates to the ninth century and attributes to this person is of a type usually dated later than the ninth century (the reverse reads: σφραγ(ὶς) σφραγίζον Λέοντ(ος) τοῦ Κούλκα) and the attribution is unsafe; see Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, p. 157, citing Shandrovskaya for a tenth or eleventh century date. Cf. also Leo 103.
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