Konstantin (son of Martina)

Constantine ( Middle Greek Κωνσταντίνος , Latin Constantinus ; * 615 in Constantinople [?]; † at the latest in 631 ) was possibly a son of the Eastern Roman emperor Herakleios .

Life

According to Theophanes , Constantine was born in 615 as the first son of Herakleios and his second wife (and niece) Martina and was baptized by Patriarch Sergios in the Church of St. Mary in Blachernae . To distinguish him from the three years older heir to the throne (Herakleios) Constantine , he was called genanntωνσταντίνος ἕτερος ( Konstantinos heteros , "the other Constantine"). On January 1, 617, the young Constantine was proclaimed Caesar by his half-brother . Then he disappears from tradition and probably died young. Perhaps Constantine is one of the two emperor's sons whose death Nikephorus reports for the year 631. The Caesar title passed to Heraklonas the following year .

swell

• Theophanes , AM 6106 and 6108

literature

• Philip Grierson (Ed.): Catalog of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: Phocas to Theodosius III, 602-717. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC 1968, ISBN 0-88402-024-X , pp. 389 f. ( Full text in google book search)
• Cyril Mango (Ed.): Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople. Short history. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC 1990, ISBN 0-88402-184-X .
• John Robert Martindale: Constantinus 34. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 3A, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-20160-8 , p. 348.

Remarks

1. ↑ Mango, Nikephoros , p. 179 f. doubts Theophanes' information and considers (like John Bagnell Bury ) a confusion with Heraklonas to be probable.