Constantine (son of Theophilos)

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Constantine (right) with his grandfather Michael II on the lapel of a solidus of his father Theophilos

Constantine ( Middle Greek Κωνσταντῖνος , * between 821/22 and 829; † around 830, no later than 835 in Constantinople ) was a Byzantine co-emperor.


Life

Constantine was probably the eldest son of the emperor Theophilus and the Theodora . He had five sisters ( Thekla , Anna, Anastasia, Pulcheria, Maria) and a younger brother, the future Emperor Michael III. When Theophilos succeeded his father Michael II as Basileus on October 2, 829 , Constantine became heir to the throne . Soon after, he was crowned co-emperor and appears as such on his father's coins . Constantine died in childhood and was buried in the Apostle Church in Constantinople.

There is just as little clarity about the time of Constantine's coronation as about the dates of his birth and death. The Middle Byzantine period prosopography according to which he should have come in the (late) 820-years to the world and died before the 831st In any case, only one emperor is mentioned in the ceremonial book for 831; In addition, Constantine is missing on seals that were minted in the years 831/32 and 832/33 (but this can also mean that he was only made co-emperor in 833). The year of his death is to be set at the latest in 835, because the following year his sister Maria was married or engaged as a small child to General Alexios Musele, who had been promoted to emperor shortly before - possibly as early as 831 - because Theophilos no longer had a male heir to the throne at that time ; the later Emperor Michael III. was only born in 839.

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SURNAME Constantine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constantinos; Κωνσταντῖνος (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine co-emperor (830 or 833–835), son of Theophilos
DATE OF BIRTH between 821 and 829
DATE OF DEATH between 830 and 835
Place of death Constantinople