{"slug": "constantine-vi", "label": "Constantine VI", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VI", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41661", "qid": "Q41661", "description": "Byzantine Emperor (771-802)", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [771, 797], "span_label": ["771 CE", "797 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "irene-of-athens", "label": "Irene of Athens", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "caesar-title", "label": "Caesar (title)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantine-v", "label": "Constantine V", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "crimea", "label": "Crimea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "francia", "label": "Francia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charlemagne", "label": "Charlemagne", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "duchy-of-benevento", "label": "Duchy of Benevento", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-adrian-i", "label": "Pope Adrian I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 771, "year_label": "771 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Constantine VI, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 797)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340847758#Births", "title": "771", "revid": 1340847758, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 776, "year_label": "776 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Emperor Leo IV (\"the Khazar\") appoints his 5-year-old son Constantine VI co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire. This leads to an uprising, led by one of Leo's half-brothers, Caesar Nikephoros, the second son of former emperor Constantine V. The revolt is quickly suppressed. Fortunately for Nikephoros, his only punishment is to be stripped of his titles, while the rest of the conspirators are blinded, tonsured, and exiled to Cherson (southern Crimea) under guard.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848048#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "776", "revid": 1340848048, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 780, "year_label": "780 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 - Emperor Leo IV (\"the Khazar\") dies after a 5-year reign, in which he has been dominated by his wife Irene of Athens, an iconodule. He is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Constantine VI; due to his minority, Irene and her chief minister Staurakios exercise a regency over him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753540#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "780", "revid": 1364753540, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 782, "year_label": "782 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Constantine VI is betrothed to the 6-year-old Rotrude, daughter of Charlemagne; Irene sends a scholar monk called Elisaeus to educate her in Greek language and manners.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267081621#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "782", "revid": 1267081621, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 787, "year_label": "787 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Empress Irene sends a Byzantine expeditionary army to invade southern Italy, but it is defeated and driven out (at Pope Adrian I's urging) by the Frankish army, allied with the forces of Benevento. She breaks off the engagement (see 782) between her son Constantine VI and the Frankish princess Rotrude, daughter of King Charlemagne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558832#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "AD 787", "revid": 1369558832, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 790, "year_label": "790 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September", "text": "September – The Armeniac Theme, located in northeastern Asia Minor (modern Turkey), revolts against Empress Irene, and declares the 19-year-old Constantine VI sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Other themes follow its example, and imprison their strategoi. Constantine sends his iconoclast general Michael Lachanodrakon, to ensure that the Armeniacs (his closest supporters) take an oath. Irene is confined and imprisoned in her palace at Constantinople; all her eunuchs are exiled.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848291#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "790", "revid": 1340848291, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 792, "year_label": "792 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Emperor Constantine VI suppresses a rebellion, and restores his mother Irene to her former position as co-empress of the Byzantine Empire. The rival factions in Constantinople continue their intrigues against Constantine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364906591#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "792", "revid": 1364906591, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 797, "year_label": "797 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Constantine VI, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 771)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358611998#Deaths", "title": "797", "revid": 1358611998, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 797, "year_label": "797 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 or August 19 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son Constantine VI. He is captured and blinded; Irene exiles him to Principo, where he dies shortly thereafter of his wounds. Irene begins a 5-year reign, and calls herself basileus (\"emperor\") of the Byzantine Empire. (Sources and historians conflict on whether this was in April or August.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358611998#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "797", "revid": 1358611998, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}