Paulus of Arabisso

• Preferred Name: Paulus of Arabisso^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 593 in Cappadocia, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire at LATI: N1.15 LONG: E8.75
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Senator
  
• Birth: ABT 520 in Arabisso, Cappadocia, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire at LATI: N1.15 LONG: E8.75 with note: Turkey did not acquire this designation until the 11th century.
  
• FSID: G44T-GWD
  
• Notes:

  === THE PLANTAGENTE ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
  THE PLANTAGENTE ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.38;

• m. ABT 548 in Kayseri, Kocasinan, Kayseri, Turquia

1. Petrus Augustus Curopalates, b. 545 in Arabissus, Cappadocia, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire, Asia Minor     d. 27 NOV 602 in Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire

1. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZANTIUM.htm#_Toc1905649;
   Note: PAULUS (-Constantinople [593]). His parentage is not known. His origin is suggested by the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian which records that [his son] Emperor Mauritius was "Cappadocien du village d'Arpsous"[351]. The Ecclesiastical History of John Bishop of Ephesus records that, at the beginning of his reign, Emperor Mauritius sent for "his father…Paul,and his mother and his brother…Peter and his two sisters, one of whom was a widow and the other the wife of Philippicus", adding that he made his father "head of the senate and chief of all the patricians"[352]. Theophanes records the death in Constantinople of "Paulus imperatoris pater" in 586 (adjusted to [593] after taking into account the dating discrepancy of the source)[353]. m firstly --- (-[13 Aug 582/583]). The Ecclesiastical History of John Bishop of Ephesus records that, at the beginning of his reign, Emperor Mauritius sent for "his father…Paul, and his mother and his brother…Peter and his two sisters, one of whom was a widow and the other the wife of Philippicus"[354]. The name of the emperor’s mother is not known. Du Cange names her "Ioanna sister of Bishop Arabisus"[355]. He bases this speculation on the Pratum spirituale of Joannes Moschus (dated to the early 7th century, and included in Vitæ Patrum, compiled in 1628 by Heribert Rosweyde SJ) which names "Amma [abbatissa] Damiana, a solitary, the mother of Athenogenus the bishop of Petra" when recording alleged miracles which she reported, including one in which she refers to "a niece of mine, and of the…Emperor Mauritius"[356], and in a later passage "Athenogenus the bishop of Petra" recording that "avia mea [translated in the version consulted as "my aunt", but presumably more accurately rendered as "my grandmother"] Joanna had a brother called Adelphus bishop of Arabessus, she herself was abbess of a monastery of women"[357]. Du Cange concluded that this text means that Damiana was the sister of Emperor Mauritius and that Joanna was their mother[358]. However, this conclusion is only one of the possible interpretations of the family relationship which is suggested by the passages ("niece" presumably being a translation of the imprecise "neptis"), and maybe not the most probable. It is likely that the 7th century writer added a reference to the emperor for the purpose of adding credibility, in the minds of his 7th century audience, to his report. If that is correct, the reference would presumably have been more precise if the emperor had been Damiana’s brother. In any case, even if Damiana and Emperor Mauritius were sister and brother, the text is also consistent with "Ioanna" having been the bishop’s paternal grandmother and so not related to the emperor at all. All this information is not precise enough to conclude that Paulus’s first wife was Ioanna. m secondly ([Sep 582/583]) ---. Theophanes records that "Mauricius" celebrated the marriage of "Pauli patri sui" shortly after his accession[359]. Paulus & his first wife had [five] children: MAURITIUS ([538/39]-murdered Chalcedon 27 Nov 602, PETRUS (-executed [Chalcedon 27] Nov 602). THEOCTISTE . Pope Gregory I wrote to "Theoctistam sororem imperatoris"[366]. GORDIA . The History of Patriarch Nikeforos records that "Mauricii imperatoris…sororem" was the wife of "Philippicum"[368]. [DAMIANA . The Pratum spirituale of Joannes Moschus (dated to the early 7th century, and included in Vitæ Patrum, compiled in 1628 by Heribert Rosweyde SJ) names "Amma [abbatissa] Damiana, a solitary, the mother of Athenogenus the bishop of Petra" when recording alleged miracles which she reported, including one in which she refers to "a niece of mine, and of the…Emperor Mauritius"[374].