Constans II
630 – 668 · Generation XIV · Emperor (r. 641–668) · Heraclian
Constans (AD 630 – 668). Emperor (r. 641–668). Married Fausta. Son of Heraclius Constantine and Gregoria. Crowned co-emperor at ten amid rumours of poisoning at court, he was left sole ruler within months and reigned at first under a senatorial regency. He faced the Arab conquests head-on: Egypt was finally given up in 642, and at the Battle of the Masts off Lycia in 655 he lost 500 ships, himself surviving only by swapping garments with one of his men. In church matters he steered a middle course, his Typos of 648 forbidding all debate over the natures of Christ. He was the last attested emperor to serve as consul, and the first since the fall of the West to visit Rome. Having moved his residence to Syracuse in Sicily, he was assassinated in his bath by a chamberlain.
One of 7 people of Heraclian (575–711) in this archive. The house that met the Arab conquests and made Greek the language of the empire.
Line of descent: Heraclius the Elder → Heraclius → Heraclius Constantine → Constans II.
Parents
- Heraclius Constantine (612 – 641)
- Gregoria (626 – ?)
Partners
- Married Fausta (630 – ?) — 3 children together
Children
- Constantine IV (652 – 685)
- Heraclius (624 – ?)
- Tiberius (624 – ?)