Maurice
539 – 602 · Generation XII · Emperor (r. 582–602) · Justinian
Maurice (AD 539 – 602). Emperor (r. 582–602). Married Constantina around AD 582. Son of Paul; married Constantina, daughter of his predecessor Tiberius II; deposed and executed by Phocas. A successful general before the purple, he brought the long Persian war to a victorious close, pushing the frontier deep into the South Caucasus and ending, for the first time in almost two hundred years, the yearly gold with which the Romans had bought peace from Persia. He then turned to the Balkans, driving the Avars back over the Danube by 599 and carrying his campaigns beyond the river — something no emperor had done for over two centuries. In the west he created the exarchates of Italy and Africa, viceroyalties that anchored imperial power in the Mediterranean. Tradition also names him author of the Strategikon, a military handbook whose influence endured for more than a thousand years. But mounting fiscal strain drove him to unpopular economies that alienated army and people alike, and in 602 the soldiers raised Phocas against him.
One of 7 people of Justinian (518–602) in this archive. Justinian and Theodora’s house, which rebuilt the law and reached back into the west.
Parents
- Paul (535 – ?)
Partners
- Married Constantina (560 – 605) in 582 — one child together
Children
- Theodosius (583 – 602)
Life
- 539 — Born
- 582 — Married Constantina
- 602 — Died