Petros 11 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E IX |
Dates | 802 (taq) / 811 (ob.) |
PmbZ No. | 6065 |
Locations | Constantinople (officeplace); Constantinople; Serdika |
Titles | Patrikios (dignity) |
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) |
Petros 11 was patrikios: Theoph. AM 6295 (31 October 802) (Πέτρος πατρίκιος), Theoph. AM 6301 (809) (Πέτρου τῶν πατρικίων), Theoph. AM 6303 (26 July 811) (Πέτρος πατρίκιος). On 31 October 802, he was one of those who supported the overthrow of the empress Eirene 1 by Nikephoros 8: Theoph. AM 6295. In 809 he was with the emperor Nikephoros 8 at Serdika; he and Nikephoros 9 were sent by the emperor Nikephoros 8 to pacify the troops when they became mutinous: Theoph. AM 6301. In 811 he was with the expedition led by the emperor Nikephoros 8 against the Bulgars and was among the high-ranking persons (τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ μεγιστάνων) killed in the defeat of the Romans on 26 July when the emperor also perished: Theoph. AM 6303.
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