Symeon Magister names "Marianus eius frater [Basilii], Symbatius cæsaris gener, Bardas quoque frater Symbatii et Petrus Bulgarus et Leo Assyrius eius consobrinus, Ioannes quoque Chaldes et Constantinus Toxaras…" as those involved in the plot to murder Bardas cæsar in 867. Georgius Monachus Continuatus names "Bardas…Basilii rectoris pater et Symbatius Basilii frater, eiusdemque patruelis Asylaeon, nec non Constantinus Toxaras" as those who conspired with the future Emperor Basileios I to murder Emperor Mikhael III.
The name of Bardas’s wife is not known. 1
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