Iohannes (''floruit'' 456) was a politician of the

Eastern Roman Empire The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

Biography

Iohannes is known only through the inscriptions that recorded him as the

Consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...

of year 456, when he was chosen by the Eastern court to hold this office together with Varanes; in the West, however, he was not recognised, as the consulate was held by Emperor

Avitus Eparchius Avitus (died 456/7) was Roman emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Western Empire from July 455 to October 456. He was a Roman Senate, senator of Roman Gaul, Gallic extraction and a high-ranking officer both in the civil and military ...

References

* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Ioannes 21", ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1980, , p. 599. {{DEFAULTSORT:Iohannes (Consul 456) 5th-century Byzantine people 5th-century Roman consuls