866 - 912 (45 years)
Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
865 - 878 (13 years)
Birth |
865 |
Died |
878 |
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Father |
Basilius de Byzantie, I, 'the Macedonian', b. 812, Adrianopolis |
Mother |
Eudokia Ingerina, b. Abt 840 |
Married |
865 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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866 - 912 (45 years)
Birth |
19 Sep 866 |
Died |
12 May 912 |
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Father |
Basilius de Byzantie, I, 'the Macedonian', b. 812, Adrianopolis |
Mother |
Eudokia Ingerina, b. Abt 840 |
Married |
865 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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Family 1 |
Theophano Martinakissa |
Married |
885 |
Children |
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Family 2 |
Zoe Zaoutzaina, b. 865 |
Married |
898 |
Children |
+ | 1. Anna de Byzantie, b. 886-889 |
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Family 3 |
Eudokia Baiana |
Married |
899 |
Children |
| 1. Basilius de Byzantie, b. Abt 900 |
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Family 4 |
Zoë Karbonopsina, "the black-eyed", b. 885, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Married |
9 Jan 905-906 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Children |
+ | 1. Konstantinos de Byzantie, VII, 'Porphyrogenetos', b. Nov 905, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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- 897
Died |
10 Nov 897 |
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Father |
Constantine Martinakos |
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Family |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Married |
885 |
Children |
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865 - 899 (34 years)
Birth |
865 |
Died |
Dec 899 |
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Father |
Stylianos Zaoutzes Baskleopator, b. 850 |
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Family |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Married |
898 |
Children |
+ | 1. Anna de Byzantie, b. 886-889 |
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- 900
Died |
900 |
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Family |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Married |
899 |
Children |
| 1. Basilius de Byzantie, b. Abt 900 |
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885 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
885 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
NN Karbonopsina |
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Family |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Married |
9 Jan 905-906 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Children |
+ | 1. Konstantinos de Byzantie, VII, 'Porphyrogenetos', b. Nov 905, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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Abt 868 - 913 (45 years)
Birth |
Abt 868 |
Died |
6 Jun 913 |
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Father |
Basilius de Byzantie, I, 'the Macedonian', b. 812, Adrianopolis |
Mother |
Eudokia Ingerina, b. Abt 840 |
Married |
865 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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869 - 893 (24 years)
Birth |
869 |
Died |
18 May 893 |
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Father |
Basilius de Byzantie, I, 'the Macedonian', b. 812, Adrianopolis |
Mother |
Eudokia Ingerina, b. Abt 840 |
Married |
865 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Basilius de Byzantie, I, 'the Macedonian', b. 812, Adrianopolis |
Mother |
Eudokia Ingerina, b. Abt 840 |
Married |
865 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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Family |
Niketas Skleros, b. 865 |
Children |
| 1. Konstantinos Skleros, b. Abt 920 |
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865 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
865 |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Léon Skleros |
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Family |
Gregoria de Byzantie |
Children |
| 1. Konstantinos Skleros, b. Abt 920 |
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812 - 886 (74 years)
Birth |
812 |
Adrianopolis |
Died |
29 Aug 886 |
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Father |
Konstantin Porphyrogenitos Mamikonian, b. Abt 810 |
Mother |
Pancalo, b. 815 |
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Family 1 |
Maria van Macedonie |
Married |
861 |
Makhedonia |
Children |
| 1. Konstantinos de Byzantie, b. Abt 865 |
+ | 2. Anastasia de Byzantie, b. Abt 862 |
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Family 2 |
Eudokia Ingerina, b. Abt 840 |
Married |
865 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Children |
| 1. Constantine de Byzantie, b. 865 |
+ | 2. Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
| 3. Aleksandros de Byzantie, b. Abt 868 |
| 4. Stephanos de Byzantie, I, b. 869 |
+ | 5. Gregoria de Byzantie |
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Family 3 |
Thekla de Byzantie |
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Abt 840 - 883 (43 years)
Birth |
Abt 840 |
Died |
882-883 |
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Father |
Inger Martinakios |
Mother |
Martinakia |
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Family 1 |
Basilius de Byzantie, I, 'the Macedonian', b. 812, Adrianopolis |
Married |
865 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Children |
| 1. Constantine de Byzantie, b. 865 |
+ | 2. Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
| 3. Aleksandros de Byzantie, b. Abt 868 |
| 4. Stephanos de Byzantie, I, b. 869 |
+ | 5. Gregoria de Byzantie |
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Family 2 |
Emperor Michael de Byzantie, III, b. 19 Jan 840 |
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- 897
Died |
10 Nov 897 |
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Father |
Constantine Martinakos |
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Family |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Married |
885 |
Children |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Mother |
Theophano Martinakissa |
Married |
885 |
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865 - 899 (34 years)
Birth |
865 |
Died |
Dec 899 |
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Father |
Stylianos Zaoutzes Baskleopator, b. 850 |
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Family |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Married |
898 |
Children |
+ | 1. Anna de Byzantie, b. 886-889 |
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889 - Bef 914 (25 years)
Birth |
886-889 |
Died |
Bef 914 |
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Father |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Mother |
Zoe Zaoutzaina, b. 865 |
Married |
898 |
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Family |
King Louis III de Bas-Bourgogne, "The Blind", b. Abt 880 |
Married |
Abt 900 |
Children |
+ | 1. Carolus Constantine de Vienne, b. 900 |
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- 900
Died |
900 |
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Family |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Married |
899 |
Children |
| 1. Basilius de Byzantie, b. Abt 900 |
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Abt 900 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
Abt 900 |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Mother |
Eudokia Baiana |
Married |
899 |
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885 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
885 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
NN Karbonopsina |
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Family |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Married |
9 Jan 905-906 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Children |
+ | 1. Konstantinos de Byzantie, VII, 'Porphyrogenetos', b. Nov 905, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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905 - 959 (54 years)
Birth |
Nov 905 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Died |
9 Nov 959 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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Father |
Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 |
Mother |
Zoë Karbonopsina, "the black-eyed", b. 885, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Married |
9 Jan 905-906 |
Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
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Family |
Eleni Lekapene, b. 906, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
Married |
27 Apr 919 |
Children |
| 1. Leo de Byzantie |
+ | 2. Romanus de Byzantie, II, b. 940, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire |
| 3. Theodora de Byzantie |
+ | 4. NN de Byzantie |
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Name |
Leon de Byzantie [2] |
Prefix |
Emperor |
Suffix |
VI, 'the Wise' |
Birth |
19 Sep 866 [2] |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
12 May 912 [2] |
Siblings |
4 Siblings |
| 1. Constantine de Byzantie, b. 865 d. 878 (Age 13 years) | + | 2. Emperor Leon de Byzantie, VI, 'the Wise', b. 19 Sep 866 d. 12 May 912 (Age 45 years) ▻ Theophano Martinakissa, m. 885 ; Zoe Zaoutzaina, m. 898 ; Eudokia Baiana, m. 899 ; Zoë Karbonopsina, "the black-eyed", m. 9 Jan 905-906 | | 3. Aleksandros de Byzantie, b. Abt 868 d. 6 Jun 913 (Age 45 years) | | 4. Stephanos de Byzantie, I, b. 869 d. 18 May 893 (Age 24 years) | + | 5. Gregoria de Byzantie d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Niketas Skleros | |
Person ID |
I16094 |
Geneagraphie | Voorouders HW, Ahnen BvS |
Last Modified |
19 Mar 2010 |
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Notes |
- Byzantine emperor from 886 to 912 during one of the most brilliant periods of the state's history.
As the second eldest son of the Emperor, Leo was associated on the throne in 870 and became the direct heir on the death of his older half-brother Constantine in 879. However, he and his father hated each other and Basil had almost had Leo blinded as a teenager. On August 29 , 886 , Basil died in a hunting accident, though he claimed on his deathbed that there was an assassination attempt in which Leo was possibly involved.
Leo's sobriquet may be explained by the facts that he "was less ignorant than the greater part of his contemporaries in church and state, that his education had been directed by the learned Photios , and that several books of profane and ecclesiastical science were composed by the pen, or in the name, of the imperial philosopher" ( Edward Gibbon ).
Domestic Policy
One of the first actions of Leo VI after his succession was the reburial of Michael III in Constantinople , which may have contributed to the suspicion that he was Michael's son. Seeking political reconciliation, the new emperor secured the support of the officials in the capital, and surrounded himself with bureaucrats like Stylianos Zoutzes and the eunuch Samonas. His attempts to control the great aristocratic families (e.g., the Phokadai and the Doukai) occasionally led to serious conflicts. Leo also attempted to control the church through his appointments to the patriarchate. He dismissed the Patriarch Photios of Constantinople, who had been his tutor, and replaced him with his own 16-year old brother Stephen in December 886. On Stephen's death in 893, Leo replaced him with Zaoutzes' nominee, Antony II Kaleuas, who died in 901. Leo then promoted his own imperial secretary (mystikos) Nicholas , but replaced him with his spiritual father Euthymios in 907.
Leo completed work on the Basilica, the Greek translation and update of the law code issued by Justinian I , which had been started during the reign of Basil.
International Policy
Leo VI was not as successful in battle as Basil had been. In indulging his chief counselor Stylianos Zaoutzes, Leo provoked a war with Simeon I of Bulgaria in 894, but was defeated. Bribing the Magyars to attack the Bulgarians from the north, Leo scored an indirect success in 895. However, deprived of his new allies, he lost the major Battle of Boulgarophygon in 896 and had to make the required commercial concessions and to pay annual tribute.
The Emirate of Sicily took Taormina , the last Byzantine outpost on the island of Sicily , in 902. In 904 the renegade Leo of Tripolis sacked Thessalonica with his Muslim pirates (an event described in The Capture of Thessalonica by John Kameniates ). In 907 Constantinople was attacked by the Kievan Rus' under Oleg of Novgorod , who was seeking favourable trading rights with the empire. Leo paid them off, but they attacked again in 911 , and a trade treaty was finally signed. The admiral Himerios, a relative of Leo's last wife, Zoe Karbonopsina scored some successes against the Muslim fleets in 908 and raided Cyprus in 910, but in 912 was soundly defeated in his attempt to conquer Crete .
Fourth marriage dispute
Leo VI caused a major scandal with his numerous marriages which failed to produce a legitimate heir to the throne. His first wife, whom Basil had forced him to marry, died in 897, and he married Zoe Zaoutzaina, the daughter of his adviser Stylianos Zaoutzes, though she died as well in 899. Upon this marriage Leo created the title of basileopator ("father of the emperor") for his father-in-law.
After Zoe's death a third marriage was technically illegal, but he married again, only to have his third wife die in 901. Instead of marrying a fourth time, which would have been an even greater sin than a third marriage (according to the Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos ) Leo took as mistress, Zoe Karbonopsina . He married her only after she had given birth to a son in 905, but incurred the opposition of the patriarch. Replacing Nicholas Mystikos with Euthymios, Leo got his marriage recognized by the church, but openend up a conflict within it and allowed new grounds for papal intervention into Byzantine affairs when he sought and obtained papal consent.
Succession
The future Constantine VII was the illegitimate son born before Leo's uncanonical fourth marriage to Zoe Karbonopsina. To strengthen his son's position as heir, Leo had him crowned as co-emperor on May 15 , 908 , when he was only two years old. Leo VI died on May 2 , 912 . He was succeeded by his younger brother Alexander , who had reigned as emperor alongside his father and brother since 879.
Legends
According to Bishop Liutprand of Cremona , and probably inspired by stories about the caliph Harun al-Rashid , Leo would sometimes disguise himself and look for injustice or corruption. On one account, he was even captured by the city guards during one of his investigations. He wanted to know if the city patrol was doing its job appropriately. He was walking alone, disguised, late in the evening without any documentation. He bribed two patrols for 12 nomismas, and moved on. However, the third city patrol arrested him. When a terrified guardian recognized the jailed ruler in the morning, the arresting officer was rewarded for doing his duty, while the other patrols were dismissed and punished severely.
Emperor of Byzantium 886-912, co-emperor 870-886, with Basileos I.
Deposed Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
During his reign the Bulgarians est. an independent church.
Arab pirates captured Thessalonika, 904; Arabs conquered Sicily, 907.
A scholar of some ability, wrote verse & "Orations" (a theological treatise).
Issued "Basilica", a completion of the digest of the laws of Justinian about 888
Leo was recorded to be a son of Basil I the Macedonian and his second wife, Eudokia Ingerina. However, it is regarded that he is the son of Emperor Michael III, as his mother had been this Emperor's mistress.
Educated by the patriarch Photius, Leo was more of a scholar than a soldier. In addition to completing the canon of laws, Leo wrote several decrees (novels) dealing with a wide range of ecclesiastical and secular problems. His other works include a funeral panegyric on his father, liturgical poems, sermons and orations, secular poetry, and military treatises. His imperial laws, written in Greek, became the legal code of the Byzantine Empire.
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Sources |
- [S525] Christian Settipani, Nos ancêtres de l'antiquité, (Éditions Christian, Paris, 1991.).
- [S157] Merriam Webster's Biographical Dictionary, (Merriam Webster Inc., Springfield, MA , 1995 ,).
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