Comentiolus
Sign in to saveComentiolus (, Komentiolos; died 602) was a prominent Eastern Roman (Byzantine) general at the close of the 6th century during the reign of Emperor Maurice (). He played a major role in Maurice's Balkan campaigns, and fought also in the East against the Sassanid Persians. Comentiolus was executed in 602 after the Byzantine army rebelled against Maurice and Emperor Phocas () usurped the throne.
Person
- Born
- 0600-01-01
- Died
- 0602-00-00
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Key facts
- Military person.name
- Comentiolus
- Military person.allegiance
- East Roman Empire
- Military person.rank
- magister militum praesentalis
- Military person.battles
- Maurice's Balkan campaigns, Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 600
- Died
- 602
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Place of birth
- Thrace
- Place of death
- Constantinople
- Occupation
- military leader
- Position held
- commanding officer
- Languages spoken
- medieval Greek
- Conflict
- Sasanian civil war of 589–591
- Military branch
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Comentiolus (, Komentiolos; died 602) was a prominent Eastern Roman (Byzantine) general at the close of the 6th century during the reign of Emperor Maurice (). He played a major role in Maurice's Balkan campaigns, and fought also in the East against the Sassanid Persians. Comentiolus was executed in 602 after the Byzantine army rebelled against Maurice and Emperor Phocas () usurped the throne.
==Biography== thumb|300px|right|Map of the northern Balkans during the 6th century. Nothing is known of Comentiolus's early life, except that he hailed from Thrace. He first appears in 583, as an officer (scribon) in the Excubitores, the imperial bodyguard, when he accompanied a Byzantine embassy to Bayan I (), the khagan of the Avars. According to the historian Theophylact Simocatta, he enraged the khagan with an outspoken statement, and was briefly imprisoned.