Tiberios (son of Justinian II)

Gold medallion of Justinian II with Tiberios (right)

Tiberios ( Middle Greek Τιβέριος , Latin Tiberius ; * 705 in Phanagoria , † December 711 in Blachernae ) was co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 706 until his death .

Life

Tiberios was the son of Emperor Justinian II and the Khazarian princess Theodora. He was born shortly before his father recaptured the throne in Constantinople after ten years of exile with the support of the Bulgarian Khan Terwel . Already at the age of one year Tiberios, who had an older half-sister Eudokia, was made basileus and co-emperor and appears as such on his father's coins.

When Justinian was overthrown in a revolt in December 711 under the leadership of Philippikos Bardanes , this meant the death sentence for the young Tiberios as well. With his assassination, the Heraklian dynasty , which had ruled the throne of Byzantium for a century, ended.

In the year 737 a pretender named Beser (Bâshîr) appeared in Asia Minor , who claimed to be the son of Justinian (or Theodosius III ).

swell

• Liber Pontificalis 1, 90
• Michael the Syrian 2, 478–479
• Paul Deacon , Hist. 6, 32
• Theophanes AM 6196–6203 (pp. 373–380 in the edition by Carl de Boor )
• John Zonaras 14: 24-25

literature

• Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 2: Georgios (# 2183) - Leon (# 4270). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016672-0 , p. 51 No. 8490 .