In the account of Theophanes, Papatzys was the Khazar tudun of Kerch during the sojourn of Justinian II in Phanagoria. He was dispatched, along with Balgitzin, by Busir Khagan to kill Justinian in 704, after Busir was bribed by Tiberius III. Justinian's Khazar wife Theodora warned him in advance and Justinian escaped by sea, but not before murdering both Papatzys and Balgitzin. Theophanes (died 817 or 818) was a Byzantine monk and chronicler. ... The Khazars were a Turkic semi-nomadic people from Central Asia who adopted Judaism. ... In pre-Islamic Turkic empires, particularly those of the Gokturks and the Khazars, a tudun was a governor resident in a town or other settlement. ... Kerch (in Russian Керчь; in Ukrainian Керч; in Turkish and Crimean Tatar Kerç) is a city (2001 pop 157,000) on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, an important industrial, transportation and tourist centre of Ukraine. ... Justinian II, known as Rhinotmetus (the Split-nosed) (669-711) was Byzantine emperor from 685 to 695 and again from 704 to 711. ... Ancient Greek colony on the penninsula between the Black Sea and the Azov, roughly on the site of modern Tmutarakan. ... In the account of Theophanes, Balgitzin was the Khazar tudun of Phanagoria during the sojourn of Justinian II in that town. ... Busir or Busir Glavan (in Greek, Ibouzir or Ibousiros Gliabanos, Khagan of the Khazars in the late 600s and early 700s CE. In 704 Justinian II, who had been exiled at Chersones for nine years, arrived at Busirs court. ... Khagan, alternatively spelled Chagan, Qaqan etc. ... Tiberius III (d. ...