Theodoros 14 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VIII |
Dates | 789 (taq) / 792 (tpq) |
Locations | Armeniakoi; Armeniakoi (officeplace); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
Titles | Patrikios (dignity); Strategos, Armeniakoi (office) |
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); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Theodoros 14 was also called Kamoulianos; he was a patrikios: Theoph. AM 6282 (Θεοδώρῳ πατρικίῳ τῷ Καμουλιανῷ), Theoph. AM 6285 (Θεόδωρον πατρίκιον, τὸν Καμουλιανόν), cf. Zon. XV 12. 14 (ὁ Καμουλιανός ὁ πατρίκιος). Cf. Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, p. 155.
Theodoros 14 was a patrikios in 789 and 790 and was one of the close allies of the emperor Constantine VI (Konstantinos 8) who conspired with him against the all-powerful eunuch Staurakios 1 (see also Petros 8 and Damianos 1); their plot was discovered and in early 790 they were punished by the empress Eirene 1; Theodoros 14 was punished (by ἀτιμίαις) and placed under house arrest (like Petros 8, q.v.; ὁμοίως καὶ Θεόδωρον πατρίκιον, τὸν Καμουλιανόν): Theoph. AM 6282. The precise sense of ἀτιμίαι is uncertain; it perhaps means to be deprived of titles and dignities, but see Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 141-142. In late 792 he was patrikios and had become strategos of the Armeniakoi; when the troops heard of the blinding of their former strategos Alexios 1 they imprisoned Theodoros 14 (his future fate is not recorded): Theoph. AM 6285 (ἐφυλάκισαν τὸν στρατηγὸν αὐτῶν Θεόδωρον καὶ πατρίκιον, τὸν Καμουλιανόν), Zon. XV 12. 14 (τὸν σφέτερον στρατηγὸν ἐποίησαν ἔμφρουρον. Ἦν δ' ὁῦτος ὁ Καμουλιανὸς ὁ πατρίκιος). For the name Kamoulianos, cf. also Demetrios 2 and Ioannes 439.
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