Paulos 24 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | E |
| Floruit | M/L IX |
| Dates | 867 (taq) / 867 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 5869 |
| Locations | Chrysopolis (Bithynia); Great Palace (Constantinople) (officeplace); Constantinople |
| Titles | Koubikoularios (office) |
| Textual Sources | Georgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history); Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle); Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history) |
Paulos 24 was koubikoularios; sent by the emperor Basil I (Basilios 7) to bury the murdered Michael III (Michael 11), he found Michael 11's mother (Theodora 2) and a sister weeping over the corpse; he loaded the body onto a boat, crossed with it to Chrysopolis and buried it in a monastery there: Leo Gramm. 252 (κοιτωνίτης), Georg. Mon. Cont. 838 (κοιτωνίτης), Ps.-Symeon 686 (ἐπὶ τοῦ κοιτῶνος). Michael 11 was killed on the night of 23 September 867.
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