Artabasdos

...his policy. The controversy raged for years. In 741 Leo died. His son Constantine V became emperor. Soon afterwards, a man named Artabasdos assumed the rule of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Artabasdos was Leo's son-in-law and...

In this article: Leo III, Constantine V, Anastasios, Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople, Christianity, and Pope Gregory II

...741 or 742. But during this course Constantine was attacked by the forces of his brother-in-law Artabasdos, the strategos of the Armeniac theme . Artabasdos was the husband of Anna , an older sister of Constantine. Defeated, Constantine...

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...III died on 18 June, 741. Constantine V succeeded him with Irene as his Empress consort. However almost immediately civil war started as Artabasdos, brother-in-law of Constantine, claimed the throne for himself. The civil war lasted to 2...

In this article: Tzitzak, Constantine V, Leo III the Isaurian, and Theophanes the Confessor

716-740) to the throne, but in 718, their count, the patrikios Isoes rose up unsuccessfully against him. In 741-742, the kouropalates '' Artabasdos used it as a base for his brief usurpation of Constantine V (r. 741-775). In 766, another count...

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...the rule of Constantine V (r. 741-775), and as part of his measures to reduce the power of the thematic generals following the revolt of Artabasdos, the Count of the Opsician Theme, the corps was downgraded. Split off from the Opsician Theme,...

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...was established sometime after 743 and before 767 by the Emperor Constantine V (r. 741-775), following the suppression of the revolt of Artabasdos, the Count of the Opsikion. The new theme, along with that of the Optimatoi was split off from...

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Leo was appointed commander (strategos ) of the Anatolic theme by Emperor Anastasius II . On his deposition Leo joined with his colleague Artabasdus , the strategos of the Armeniac theme, in conspiring to overthrow the new Emperor Theodosius...

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...were elevated to the throne after coup d'etats by factions of the Byzantine army. A revolt by Leo , strategos of the Anatolikon Theme and Artabasdos, strategos of the Armeniac Theme, succeeded in deposing Theodosios. On 25 March, 717, Leo was...

In this article: Leo III the Isaurian, Constantine V, Theodosios III, Constantine VII, Maria, wife of Leo III, Philippikos, and Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople

It became capital of the thema of Anatolikon soon after. In 742-743, it was the main base of Emperor Constantine V against the usurper Artabasdos, and in 820, an Amorian, Michael II, ascended the Byzantine throne, establishing the Amorian...

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...supporters. The first major battle took place near Sardis, Lydia in May, 743. Ending with the defeat of Artabasdos. An army led by Niketas, another son of Artabasdos and Anna, was defeated in August. Constantine headed for Constantinople and...

In this article: Constantine V, Leo III the Isaurian, Theodosios III, Anna, wife of Artabasdos, and Philippikos