Leontios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VII |
| Dates | 687 (taq) / 686 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 4547 |
| Locations | Media; Boucania; Albania; Iberia; Armenia |
| Titles | Strategos (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) |
Leontios 1 was a strategos, sent against Armenia (ἀποστέλλει Λεόντιον τὸν στρατηγὸν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀρμενίαν μετὰ Ῥωμαϊκῆς δυνάμεως) by Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) in 686/687: Theoph. AM 6178. Leontios 1 killed the Arabs in Armenia and subjected it to the Romans, and then did the same in Iberia, Albania, Boucania (sic; perhaps equals "Hyrcania"; cf. also Mango and Scott, Theophanes, p. 507, n. 4) and Media (καὶ Ἰβηρίαν καὶ Ἀλβανίαν, Βουκανίαν τε καὶ Μηδίαν: Theoph. AM 6178); Leontios 1 collected many taxes from these districts and sent large sums to the emperor: Theoph. AM 6178. Strategos, sent by the emperor Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1), he subdued Iberia and Albania and other lands: Zon. XIV 22. 10 (probably when strategos of the Anatolikoi). Probably identical with Leontios 2.
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