Mizizios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M VII |
Dates | 668 (taq) / 669 (ob.) |
PmbZ No. | 5163 |
Variant Names | Mezezius; Mzyzy; Mecetius; Mezetius |
Ethnicity | Armenian |
Locations | Syracuse (Sicily) (deathplace); Armenia (birthplace); Sicily |
Titles | Patrikios (dignity) |
Textual Sources | Chronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle); Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le liber pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92); re-issued with 3rd vol. by C. Vogel, (Paris, 1955-57) (chronicle); Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (chronicle); Paulus Diaconus, Historia Gentis Langobardorum, ed. L. Bethmann and G. Waitz, MGH, Scr. Rer. Lang., pp. 12-187; also in MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 48, pp. 49-242 (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); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Mizizios 1 was an Armenian (τινα Ἀρμένιον) (and a patrikios, Chron. 1234, Mich. Syr.), proclaimed emperor in Sicily after the murder of Constans II (Konstans 1) in 668, allegedly against his will; described (in Theophanes, and cf. Mich. Syr.) as a fine looking and handsome man (εὐπρεπὴς καὶ ὡραιότατος); defeated and killed by Konstantinos 2 (son of Constans): Theoph. AM 6160, Chron. 1234, §139 (p. 287) ("the Romans, however, elected as king a certain patrician by the name of Mizizios the Armenian (
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