Tiberios (son of Theodosius III)

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Tiberios ( Middle Greek Τιβέριος ; † after 717) was a son and possibly co-emperor of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius III.

Life

Against the background of a looming attack by the Arabs on Constantinople , the strategos of the subject Anatolicon , Konon, had himself in Asia Minor in March 717 as Leo III. against Theodosius III. proclaimed emperor. Theodosius then equipped his son with a crown and purple robes and sent him with an army against the usurper. The emperor's son was captured at Nicomedia , with Leo perhaps using his imperial insignia for his own coronation. Together with his father Theodosius, he abdicated in Chrysopolis and, like the latter, was sheared to become a monk .

The name of the Theodosios son is not documented at the time, but can be deduced indirectly. In the 730s a pretender appeared in Asia Minor under the name Tiberios , who, according to Syrian sources, pretended to be the son of the emperor "Constantine". Theodosius III. is the only emperor of the epoch in question for whom this name has been passed down, namely by Pseudo-Dionysius as a double name Theodosios-Konstantinos . An identity of the emperor's son with Theodosius , the iconoclastic archbishop of Ephesus and chairman of the council of Hiereia , has also been suspected, but this is traditionally identified with a son of the emperor Tiberios II . Kedrenos also knows the nickname Chrysographos ("gold scribe"), which may however more likely refer to Emperor Theodosius III. even than to be related to his son.

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literature

  • Philip Grierson : The Tombs and Obits of the Byzantine Emperors (337-1042). In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers . Vol. 16, 1962, pp. 3-63.
  • Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 4: Plato (# 6266) - Theophylaktos (# 8345). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-016674-7 , pp. 502-503, no. 7793A (anonymous).
  • Ilse Rochow: Byzantium in the 8th century as seen by Theophanes. Source-critical historical commentary on the years 715–813 (= Berlin Byzantine works. Vol. 57). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-05-000700-1 , pp. 78–79.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Only Agapios reports, Leo III. had the son of Theodosius killed.
  2. ↑ According to the Greek sources, this pseudo-Tiberios posed as the son of Justinian II (and thus the grandson of Constantine IV ). However, he was murdered in December 711 after the fall of his father in Blachernae and buried in Constantinople. These circumstances were certainly still known to contemporaries two decades later and, if this version were to be correct, are likely to have confronted the pretenders with a considerable credibility problem a priori. See also PmbZ , No. 2593 ( Hišām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ) and 8166 (Theophantos).
  3. ↑ Grierson, Tombs , p. 52.
personal data
SURNAME Tiberios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Τιβέριος (Greek); Chrysographus (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Son of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius III.
DATE OF BIRTH 7th century or 8th century
DATE OF DEATH after 717