David Tiberios

David Tiberios ( Middle Greek Δαβίδ Τιβέριος ; * November 7, 631 (according to other sources: 627) probably in Constantinople ; † probably at the end of September 641 there or in Rhodes ) was co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire for a few days in autumn 641 .

Life

David was a son of the emperor Herakleios and Martina . This did everything to ensure that her biological son Heraklonas sole heir to the throne and Herakleios' eldest son Constantine III. should be excluded from the line of succession. When Heraklonas was made co-emperor on July 4th, 638, the title Caesar passed to his younger brother David. After Heraklonas had assumed sole rule on May 25, 641, David advanced to the position of basileus and co-emperor together with another brother ( Martinos ) and the later sole ruler Konstans II in September under the throne name Tiberios . At the end of the month (or in November) Martina and her sons were overthrown, mutilated and exiled to Rhodes ; according to Johannes von Nikiu , David Tiberios also died.

literature

Walter E. Kaegi: Heraclius. Emperor of Byzantium. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2003, ISBN 0-52181-459-6 , pp. 265-268 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 1: Aaron (# 1) - Georgios (# 2182). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-015179-0 , No. 1241 .
John Robert Martindale: David 8. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 3A, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-20160-8 , p. 390.
Ueli Zahnd: Novus David - Νεοϛ Δαυιδ . On the question of Byzantine forerunners of an occidental topos. In: Early Medieval Studies (2008) . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-019675-7 , pp. 71-88.
Constantin Zuckerman: On the title and the office of the Byzantine basileus. In: Travaux et Mémoires du Center de recherche d'Histoire et Civilization de Byzance 16 (= Mélanges Cécile Morrisson ), 2010, ISSN 0577-1471 , pp. 865-890 ( online ; PDF; 1.4 MB ).

Remarks

↑ The name was chosen programmatically because the emperor's son was born in the year after the " City of David " Jerusalem had been retaken. Herakleios himself, like Constantine I , was celebrated as the “new David ” in accordance with the Byzantine idea of the empire . Critically, however, Zahnd, Novus David , p. 80 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	David Tiberios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Δαβίδ Τιβέριος (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Byzantine co-emperor, son of Herakleios
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 631
PLACE OF BIRTH	uncertain: Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH	641
Place of death	Constantinople or Rhodes

[1] The name was chosen programmatically because the emperor's son was born in the year after the " City of David " Jerusalem had been retaken. Herakleios himself, like Constantine I , was celebrated as the “new David ” in accordance with the Byzantine idea of the empire . Critically, however, Zahnd, Novus David , p. 80 ff.