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• Perhaps the same as Konstantinos Mamikonian, of Adrianople
• Husband of Pankalo and father of Basil I, Byzantine Emperor
• Seen as father of the brothers Bardas I & Simbatios, the Armenian, but this is speculative.

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http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZANTIUM.htm#BasileiosIdied886B

[---. Cedrenus records that "Basilii pater" was the son of "Maictes" and his wife "Leonem…unamque ex eius filiabus"[1017]. The name of the father of Emperor Basileios I is unknown. The Vita Basilii records that "Basilius imperator" and his parents were captured by the Bulgars while Krum was "Bulgarorum princeps" (died in 814)[1018]. The Vita Basilii records that the father of "Basilius imperator" was a farmer but died when Basileios was approaching manhood[1019].]

m PANKALO, daughter of --- (-bur Constantinople, Monastery of St Euphemia). Zonaras records that Basileios’s mother survived his father "ultra paupertatis incommoda" and that she went to Constantinople with her son[1020]. Emperor Konstantinos VII's De Ceremoniis Aulæ records that "Pancalo, mater Basilii Imperatoris" was buried in "monasterio S. Euphemiæ dictæ Formosæ"[1021].

Their son:

BASILEIOS, son of --- & his wife Pankalo --- ([813] or [825]-29 Aug 886, bur Constantinople, church of the Holy Apostles). The Vita Basilii records that "Basilius imperator" was "ex regione Macedonum…originem…ad Armenios, Arsacidæ genere", recording in a later passage that he and his parents were captured by the Bulgars while Krum was "Bulgarorum princeps" (he died in 814)[1038]. Settipani suggests that Basileios was born in [836]. He cites no source on which this suggestion is based[1039], but the hypothesis is inconsistent with the family’s capture by Krum Tsar of the Bulgarians. ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_I

Basil was born to peasant parents in late 811 (or sometime in the 830s in the estimation of some scholars) at Chariopolisin the Byzantine theme of Macedonia (an administrative division corresponding to the area of Adrianople in Thrace).[1][2] The name of his father was Bardas, the name of his grandfather was Maïktes, his mother was named Pankalo (Παγκαλώ), and her father was called Leo.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_V_the_Armenian

Nicholas Adontz in his book The age and origins of the emperor Basil I (1933) expressed a theory that Leo V and Theodosia were ancestors of Basil I. The theory was partly based on the account of his ancestry given by Constantine VII, a grandson of Basil I, as well as the accounts given by Theophanes Continuatus.[15] Basil I, according to these accounts, was a son of peasants. His mother is named by Constantine VII as "Pankalo". The name of his father was not recorded, but the names Symbatios and Constantine have been suggested; both were names used by the eldest sons of Basil, with eldest sons of Byzantines typically named after their grandfathers.[15] The paternal grandfather of Basil is named as Maiactes. The paternal grandmother was not named but was identified as a daughter of "Leo", a citizen of Constantinople. Adontz identified this Leo as Leo V, which would make Leo V and Theodosia great-grandparents of Basil I.[15] Adontz also suggested Constantine VII had made a mistake in the generations separating Maiactes and Basil. This suggests that Basil was a great-grandson of Maiactes and not old enough to have seen the wars with Krum of Bulgaria, which would make Leo V and Theodosia fourth-generation ancestors of Basil.[15]

The theory has been accepted by several genealogists, including Christian Settipani in his search for descent from antiquity. The name "Anna" has been suggested for the daughter of Leo V and Theodosia, because it was given to daughters of Basil I, Leo VI the Wise, Constantine VII and Romanos II--almost every emperor that would claim descent from this woman.[15]

See also

• https://erenow.net/postclassical/byzantium-the-apogee/7.php
• http://erwan.gil.free.fr/modules/freepages/pharaons/ramses_II.pdf page 13 - 14
• https://www.gordondoherty.co.uk/writeblog/theancientcityofadrianople
• https://medium.com/the-footnotes-of-history/how-a-peasant-became-em...