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

Eastern Roman Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

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 throug ...

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 (c. 390 – 457) was Roman emperor of the West from July 455 to October 456. He was a senator of Gallic extraction and a high-ranking officer both in the civil and military administration, as well as Bishop of Piacenza. He o ...

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 Imperial Roman consuls