Sergios 7 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 773 (taq) / 773 (tpq) |
| Ethnicity | Isaurian |
| Locations | Syke (Isauria) |
| 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) |
In 773 Sergios Kourikos (Sergios 7) (ὁ Κούρικος Σέργιος) was captured by the Arabs outside Sykai (a port in Isauria): Theoph. AM 6264. On the name, see Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 153, 197 (it indicates Isaurian origin).
Sergios 7 was a patrikios and the husband of Eirene 4 (sister of the empress Theodora 2): Scyl., p. 98, 73ff. He was probably banished like the rest of the family in the reign of the emperor Theophilos (Theophilos 5), for supporting the veneration of icons contrary to imperial orders; cf. Synax. Eccl. Const. 682, 18ff. (unnamed), Menol. Bas. 453D (unnamed). If he is identical with the unnamed husband of Eirene 4 recorded in Theoph. Cont. IV 22, he was already dead by 855, since Eirene 4 was already a widow during the regency of Theodora 2. The husband of Eirene 4 may however have been an uncle of Photios 1, not a brother; see Sergios 44 and cf. Eirene 6.
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