Petros 142

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitM IX
PmbZ No.6112
Variant NamesPietro Tradonico;
Petrus Particiacus
LocationsTarentum (Calabria);
Venetia;
Venetia (officeplace)
TitlesSpatharios (dignity);
Doux, Venetia (office)
Textual SourcesJohn the Deacon, Cronaca veneziana, ed. G. Monticolo, Fonti per la storia d'Italia 9 (Rome, 1890), pp. 57-171 (chronicle);
Origo Civitatum Italiae seu Venetiarum (Chronicon Altinate et Chronicon Gradense), ed. R. Cessi, Fonti per la storia d'Italia 73 (Rome, 1933) (chronicle)

Petros 142 (Petrus Particiacus or Pietro Tradonico) was dux of Venetia for twenty-nine years; he succeeded Ioannes 518 and was succeeded by his son Ursus Particiacus (Oursos 4): Chron. Alt., p. 117. In 840 he received the dignity of spatharios from the emperor Theophilos 8 via Theodosios 41 ("Theodosius patricius Constantinopli Veneciam veniens spatharii honoris investituram Petro contulit duci"); at the request of the emperor Theophilos 8, Petros 142 mounted an expedition against the Saracens (Arabs) at Tarentum but his forces were destroyed by the Arabs under their leader Saba: John the Deacon, Cron. Ven. s.a. 840.

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