Leo V the Armenian

...the Slav was originally a Byzantine military and naval commander entrusted with a very high command during the reign of Emperor Leo V the Armenian but later tried to depose Emperor Michael II. He served in the Roman army with Leo V and...

In this article: Thomas the Slav, Basileus, John Julius Norwich, Byzantium, and Antioch

...present at the Second General Council of Nicaea in 787, and signed its decrees in defense of the sacred images. When the emperor Leo V the Armenian (813-820) resumed his iconoclastic warfare, he ordered Theophanes brought to Constantinople...

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...Phrygian dynasty. Theophilos was the son of the Byzantine Emperor Michael II and his wife of Armenian descent Thekla , and the godson of Emperor Leo V the Armenian. Michael II crowned Theophilos co-emperor in 822, shortly after his own...

In this article: Theophilos, Sicily, Anatolia, and Baghdad

...of Orthodoxy" under the Byzantine empress Theodora over iconoclasm in 843. (National Icon Collection 18, British Museum) Emperor Leo V the Armenian instituted a second period of Iconoclasm in 815, again possibly motivated by military...

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...who had been set free by his partisans only hours before entering the church. When they approached Leo they drew their daggers to stab him. Leo, suspecting something was wrong, jumped away when he saw the daggers and tried to flee and...

In this article: Michael, Nikephoros I, Theodore the Studite, Battle of Versinikia, Michael I Rangabe, and Michael the Amorian

...and Khazarian Turkic origin. His friend during these years was an ambitious and scheming officer of Armenian descent, the future Emperor Leo V the Armenian who was married to another daughter of Bardanes Tourkos. Michael and Leo abandoned...

In this article: Michael III, Thomas the Slav, Euphrosyne, Christianity, Constantine VI, Christmas Eve, and Nikephoros I

...the daughter of his commanding officer. The marriage probably occurred prior to the revolt of her father. The defections of Leo V the Armenian and Michael II from the forces of Bardanes to those of Nikephoros were deciding factors in the...

In this article: Theophilos, Thekla, wife of Michael II, Constantine VI, Michael, and George Hamartolus

...in education within the Empire. Theoktistos was a eunuch, and was instrumental in the plot to assassinate the emperor Leo V the Armenian in 820, which brought Michael II and the Amorian dynasty to the throne. In return, Michael raised him...

In this article: Michael III, Theophilos, and Theodora

...in the area of Atroa. The monastery grew quickly, and Paul named Peter as his successor on the former's death in 805. Leo V the Armenian was in power at the time, and supported the Iconoclasts in their efforts to destroy religious imagery.

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...and full of charity. He courageously opposed the iconoclastic heresy, and was exiled as a result. According the Russian and Serbian "Synaxars " he suffered at the beginning of 9th century, during the reign of Leo V the Armenian in Byzantium.

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