Symbatios or Sabbatios, surnamed the Armenian (Greek: Συμβάτιος/Σαββάτιος ὁ Ἀρμένιος) was a senior Byzantine aristocrat and official in the mid-860s.
Symbatios was the son-in-law of the Caesar Bardas, the de facto ruler of the Byzantine Empire during the later reign of his nephew Michael III (r. 842–867).
From there he rebelled in summer 866 against the growing power of Basil, along with the governor of the Opsician Theme, George Peganes.
He was publicly humiliated by being forced to beg for three days in the ta Laousou quarter, before being put under house arrest.
[2] When Basil the Macedonian deposed Michael III and became sole emperor in September 867; however, he lifted the banishment of Symbatios and the other rebels, and restored their property to them.