"John Blackfoot") was an Eastern Roman poet, hymnographer, and author of letters and orations, who lived in the 11th century.
For a couple of years, Mauropous belonged to the favoured circle of poets and scholars that Constantine gathered around him, he functioned as a court orator.
But for an unknown reason, these friends suddenly fell from favour around the year 1050, and presumably on this occasion,[1] Mauropous was appointed metropolitan of Euchaita.
This seems to have succeeded at the end of Mauropous' life: he retired to the monastery of Agia Petra in Constantinople.
The typical blend of religious piety and classical culture links him with his pupil Psellos, and contemporary poets like Christopher of Mytilene.