Tiberius
624 – ? · Generation XV · co-emperor (r. 659–681)
Tiberius (b. AD null). co-emperor (r. 659–681). Son of Constans II. The youngest of Constans II’s sons, he was raised to co-emperor beside his brother Heraclius just before their father sailed for Italy – the coronation likely fell on Whitsunday of 659 – and remained in Constantinople when a popular rising blocked Constans’s attempt to bring his sons to Sicily. Under Constantine IV he held the rank for thirteen years more, until the senior emperor tried to strip it away. Soldiers of the Anatolic Theme marched in protest, insisting that the empire, like Heaven, should be ruled by three; Constantine dissolved the revolt with false promises, hanged its leaders at Sycae, and then had Tiberius and Heraclius mutilated, their images removed from the coinage and their names from official documents. From that moment Tiberius vanishes from the historical record.
Line of descent: Heraclius the Elder → Heraclius → Heraclius Constantine → Constans II → Tiberius.
Parents
- Constans II (630 – 668)
- Fausta (630 – ?)
Siblings
- Heraclius (624 – ?)
- Constantine IV (652 – 685)