Tiberios (son of Maurikios)

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Tiberios ( ancient Greek Τιβέριος , * after 583 in Constantinople ; † November 27, 602 in Chalcedon ) was an Eastern Roman prince.

Life

Tiberios was the second eldest son of the Eastern Roman emperor Maurikios and Constantina . Allegedly he was raised to co-emperor together with his older brother Theodosius in 590 . In the dating formula of a synod in Rome in 595, Tiberios is possibly named as Augustus . In the will of Maurikios of 597, which based on the Tetrarchy provided for a division of power between East and West Rome, Tiberios was intended as emperor of the west with the residence of Rome .

After Maurikios' overthrow in 602, his successor Phocas had Tiberios killed together with his father and brothers Petros, Justin and Justinian; It is uncertain whether Theodosius managed to escape to the court of the Persian great king Chosrau II .

literature

  • Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , The Later Roman Empire 284-602. A social, economic and administrative survey . Blackwell Oxford 1964 (reprinted 1986).
  • Gerhard Rösch: Onoma Basileias. Studies on the official use of the imperial titles in late antique and early Byzantine times (= Byzantina Vindobonensia. Vol. 10). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0260-7 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Ewald - Hartmann, Gregorii I. papae registrum epistularum , vol. I, V, no. 57a, p. 362: "regnante in perpetuum Domino nostro Iesu Christo, temporibus piissimi ac serenissimi domini Mauricii, Tiberii et Theodosii Augustorum eiusdem domini imperii Mauricii anno ... “ (quoted from Rösch, Onoma Basileias , p. 140; different reading : Mauricii Tiberii et Theodosii ).