Symbatios Konstantinos

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Symbatios Konstantinos on the lapel of a solidus of his father Leo V.

Symbatios ( Middle Greek Συμβάτιος , Armenian Smbat , in some sources also Sabbatios or Sambates ; * between 800 and 810; † after 820 on Proti ) was Byzantine Mitkaiser from 813/14 to 820 under the name Konstantinos ( Κωνσταντῖνος , Konstantin ) .

Life

Symbatios was the eldest son of the future emperor Leo V and Theodosia , a daughter of the usurper Arsaber . He had three brothers, Basil, Gregorios and Theodosios. When Leo was elevated to basileus in a revolt against Michael I on July 11, 813 , Symbatios advanced to heir to the throne . Soon after his father, he was crowned co-emperor as a child and at the same time took the throne name Konstantinos, which also appears on the coins issued for him .

In 815, Symbatios Konstantinos nominally presided next to Leo V at the iconoclastic council of Constantinople , which ushered in a new phase of the iconoclasm . After his father was murdered on December 25, 820, he was banished to the Prince Island of Proti in the Sea of ​​Marmara together with his mother and brothers . There the brothers were castrated and sheared to become monks . However, the new Emperor Michael II allowed the family to keep some of their confiscated property and some servants.

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SURNAME Symbatios Konstantinos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Συμβάτιος Κωνσταντῖνος (Middle Greek); Symbatios (birth name); Smbat; Sabbatios; Sambates; Konstantinos (as emperor); Constantine (as emperor)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine co-emperor (813 / 814–820)
DATE OF BIRTH between 800 and 810
DATE OF DEATH after 820
Place of death on Proti