Theodosios 41 was a member of the Baboutzikos family (and therefore related to Konstantinos 30); a patrikios, he was sent by the emperor Theophilos (Theophilos 5) as ambassador to the king of the Franks (Anonymus 201) to request military aid against the Arabs; the date was after the capture of Amorion in 838; the request was granted but the deaths first of Theodosios and then of Theophilos prevented any further action: Theoph. Cont. III 37 (p. 135). This probably refers to the embassy of Theodosios in 841 to Lotharios 2; he went on an earlier embassy to Louis the Pious (Lodoïchos 2) (c. 839) and in c. 840 another to Venice; see Treadgold, Revival, pp. 309, 320, 325.

Theodosios 41 Baboutzikos was a patrikios and a close relative of the emperor Theophilos 5; he was sent by Theophilos 5 as an envoy to the king of the Franks following the Arab capture of Amorion to arrange a military alliance, hoping to create a joint force and to have Frankish generals sent to raid Saracen lands between Libya and Asia: Genesius III 16 (τὸν πατρίκιον Θεοδόσιον τὸν ἐκ Βαβουτζίκων φυέντα καὶ αὐτοῦ ἀγχιστέα). He died during the course of this embassy; the date was apparently when Theophilos 5 was already dying: Genesius III 18.

A member of the Baboutzikos family, he was a patrikios; he was sent by the emperor Theophilos 5 on an embassy to the king of the Franks to ask for help against the Arabs, but he died before his mission was completed: Scyl., p. 79 (τὸν πατρίκιον Θεοδόσιον, ἐκ τοῦ τῶν Βαβουτζίκων καταγόμενον γένους). This embassy is referred to in Prudentius of Troyes, Annales s.a. 842; Lotharios 2 received the (unnamed) Greek envoys ("legatos Graecorum") at Trier. He is probably identical with the patrikios Theodosios who went to Venice in 839 and asked the then dux Petros 142 to send an expedition against the Saracens; Theodosios remained in Venice for a year; Petros 142 mounted an expedition against the Saracens at Tarentum but his forces were destroyed by the Saracens (Arabs) under Saba: John the Deacon, Cron. Ven. s.a. 840 ("Theodosius patricius").

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