Sergios 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 718 (taq) / 717 (tpq) |
| Locations | Lombardy; Sicily (officeplace); Sicily (residence); Sicily |
| Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Protospatharios (dignity); Strategos, Sicily (office) |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (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) |
Sergios 3 was strategos of Sicily during the siege of Constantinople in 717 and 718; he had the rank of protospatharios according to Theophanes (Σέργιος, ὁ πρωτοσπαθάριος καὶ στρατηγὸς Σικελίας), but the rank of patrikios according to Nicephorus (ο πατρίκιος ὁ τῆς Σικελίας στρατηγὸς); during the siege he rebelled against the emperor Leo III (Leo 3) and proclaimed one of his staff, Basilios, as emperor (see Tiberios 3 and also Georgios 4); on the arrival in Sicily of Leo 3's appointee Paulos 7, Sergios 3 fled from Sicily and took refuge among the Lombards, but later surrendered to Paulos 7 after obtaining pledges of safety: Theoph. AM 6210, Nic. Brev. de Boor 54-55, Mango 54-55, cf. Zonaras XV 2. 1-8 (ὁ τῆς Σικελίας στρατηγὸς Σέργιος), Cedr. I 790-791, Leo Gramm. 179, Theod. Mel. 123. On his role in this revolt, cf. Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 39-40 (possibly less implicated than the sources suggest). The identification of this man with the owner of the seal Zacos and Veglery 2356 (Sergios 79) is uncertain; see Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 85. Cf. Rochow, Theophanes, p. 93-94. Cf. also Sergios 66.
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