Peranius

Peranius

Peranius was a Georgian prince from Iberia and a military commander in Roman service. According to Procopius, he was the eldest son of the Iberian king Gurgenes. Gurgenes can be identified with Vakhtang I Gorgasali of the Georgian sources; and Peranius might have been his brother rather than a son as suggested by Procopius. He was the father of Pacurius and uncle of Phazas, two other Iberian generals of the Roman army.

Peranius and his family fled the Sassanid oppression of Iberia into Lazica in the 520s. They placed themselves under Roman protection and left for Constantinople where Peranius joined the Imperial army. Later in the 530s, he served under Belisarius in Italy and was in Rome during the siege by the Goths (537-538). During the siege, he defended the Porta Praenestina and led a sally from the Porta Salaria. In mid-538, he laid a siege to Urbs Vetus (Orvieto) which fell in early 539.

Early in the 540s, Peranius was transferred to the eastern frontier where he fought the Sassanid Iranian armies. He raided Taraunitis in 543 and was one of the Roman commanders defending Edessa in 544. Khosrau I demanded the surrender of Peranius on the grounds that Peranius was his hereditary slave. When an Iranian contingent under Azarethes threatened to break into the city through one of the gates, Peranius led reinforcements of soldiers and citizens to the spot and averted the danger.

Soon after the end of the siege of Edessa, Peranius died of severe injuries sustained in a fall from his horse while hunting. [Martindale, John Robert (1992), "The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire", pp. 989-990. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521072336.]

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