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'''Baktangios''' (; died 743) was a [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] ''[[Patrician (ancient Rome)|patrikios]]'' and one of the principal supporters of the usurping emperor [[Artabasdos]].
Baktangios was probably of [[Georgians|Georgian]] descent, his name being a Hellenized "[[Vakhtang]]".<ref name="PBE"></ref> According to [[Christian Settipani]], he could have been a scion of King [[Vakhtang I of Iberia]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Baktangios was closely associated with Artabasdos, a commander of Armenian origin, who seized [[Constantinople]] from [[Constantine V]] in 741. After Constantine made a comeback in November 743, Baktangios accompanied Artabasdos in his flight to the castle of Pouzanes in [[Opsikion]] ([[Asia Minor]]). They were both captured by Constantine's agents and brought to Constantinople, where Artabasdos was blinded and Baktangios was beheaded in the [[Walls of Constantinople|Kynegion]], his head exposed on the [[Milion]] for three days. He was buried in the [[Chora Church|monastery of the Chora]]. Thirty years later, according to the chronicle of [[Theophanes the Confessor|Theophanes]], Constantine forced Baktangios's widow to unearth his remains, carry them away in her own cloak and deposit them in the cemetery of Pelagios, where suicides were buried.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="PBE"/>
== References ==
[[Category:743 deaths]]
[[Category:8th-century Byzantine people]]
[[Category:Executed Byzantine people]]
[[Category:Patricii]]
[[Category:Byzantine people of Georgian descent]]
Baktangios was probably of [[Georgians|Georgian]] descent, his name being a Hellenized "[[Vakhtang]]".<ref name="PBE"></ref> According to [[Christian Settipani]], he could have been a scion of King [[Vakhtang I of Iberia]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Baktangios was closely associated with Artabasdos, a commander of Armenian origin, who seized [[Constantinople]] from [[Constantine V]] in 741. After Constantine made a comeback in November 743, Baktangios accompanied Artabasdos in his flight to the castle of Pouzanes in [[Opsikion]] ([[Asia Minor]]). They were both captured by Constantine's agents and brought to Constantinople, where Artabasdos was blinded and Baktangios was beheaded in the [[Walls of Constantinople|Kynegion]], his head exposed on the [[Milion]] for three days. He was buried in the [[Chora Church|monastery of the Chora]]. Thirty years later, according to the chronicle of [[Theophanes the Confessor|Theophanes]], Constantine forced Baktangios's widow to unearth his remains, carry them away in her own cloak and deposit them in the cemetery of Pelagios, where suicides were buried.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="PBE"/>
== References ==
[[Category:743 deaths]]
[[Category:8th-century Byzantine people]]
[[Category:Executed Byzantine people]]
[[Category:Patricii]]
[[Category:Byzantine people of Georgian descent]]
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