Tiberios (son of Maurikios)

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 .

Web links

Wilhelm Baum : Short biography (English) at De Imperatoribus Romanis (with references). (Maurikios)

Remarks

^ 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 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Tiberios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Τιβέριος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	second eldest son of the Eastern Roman emperor Maurikios and Constantia
DATE OF BIRTH	after 583
PLACE OF BIRTH	Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH	November 27, 602
Place of death	Chalcedony

[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 ).