Heraclius II, also known as Erekle II (Georgian: ერეკლე II) and The Little Kakhetian (Georgian: პატარა კახი [pʼatʼaɾa kʼaχi]; 7 November 1720 or 7 October...

earning Khosrow II the epithet "the Victorious". A siege of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople in 626 was unsuccessful, and Heraclius, now allied with...

Heraclius the Elder (Greek: Ἡράκλειος, Herákleios; died 610) was a Byzantine Roman general and the father of Byzantine Roman emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641)...

especially from the House of Mukhrani. In 1744, Teimuraz II of Kartli and his son Heraclius II of Kakheti re-established the kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti...

Emperor Heraclius had assembled an army to retake the territory lost to the Sasanian Empire. In 628, following the deposition of Khosrow II, Kavad II made...

marriages. Teimuraz's children of his marriage to Tamar of Kartli were: Heraclius II (November 7, 1720 – January 11, 1798), the future king of Kakheti and...

Tiberius II Constantine (Latin: Tiberius Cōnstantīnus; Greek: Τιβέριος Κωνσταντῖνος, translit. Tibérios Kōnstantĩnos; died 14 August 582) was Eastern Roman...

King Heraclius II, George was raised in a country at war, facing regular attacks from the Persian and Ottoman empires in its south, and constant Lezgin...

had no cause to dread attacks. Basil II's reign is one of the most significant in Byzantine history. His constant military campaigns led to the zenith...

Theodosius II (Greek: Θεοδόσιος Theodosios; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450) was Roman emperor from 408 to 450. He was proclaimed Augustus as an infant and...

armed pilgrimage to the Holy City (1142). The reign of John II was taken up with almost constant warfare and, unlike his father who delighted in active participation...

Isaac II Angelos or Angelus (Greek: Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός Ἄγγελος, translit. Isaákios Komnēnós Ángelos; September 1156 – January 1204) was Byzantine Emperor...

Nikephoros II Phokas (Greek: Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, Nikēphóros Phōkãs; c. 912 – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from...

Theodore II Doukas Laskaris or Ducas Lascaris (Greek: Θεόδωρος Δούκας Λάσκαρις, romanized: Theodōros Doukas Laskaris; November 1221/1222 – 16 August 1258)...

before Zeno returned and retook the throne. Zeno's rule was marked by constant unrest, and it was only through cunning and bribery that he managed to...

Sultan Murad II in 1446. From 1449, it was ruled by the brothers Demetrios Palaiologos and Thomas Palaiologos, who were engaged in a constant rivalry with...

numbering follows Constantine II, emperor in the West (317–340). More rarely, he is instead enumerated as Heraclius II. Nicol 1993, p. 72. Hooker 2007...

317 – 3 November 361) was Roman emperor from 337 to 361. His reign saw constant warfare on the borders against the Sasanian Empire and Germanic peoples...

negotiate. Constantine II was succeeded by Teimuraz II (1732–1744), the only Christian son of Heraclius I. With the accession of Teimuraz II to the throne forty...

class of Byzantium, with a number of emperors coming from their ranks: Heraclius I (610–641), Philippicus (711–713), Artabasdos (742–743), Leo the Armenian...

aspects of Roman administration by the reign of Trajan (r. 98–117), though constant efforts were made by people eligible for such duties to escape their imposition...

because Fronto was frequently ill; at times, he seems to be an almost constant invalid, always suffering – about one-quarter of the surviving letters...

succeeded him on the throne at the age of 43. Maurice's reign was marked by constant money troubles. Maurice ascended the throne and received a bankrupt empire...

years. The death of Heraclius in 641 had thrown the political situation in Constantinople into chaos, and his young grandson Constans II (641–668) succeeded...

Heraclius. Phocas lost Constantinople in 610 and was soon executed, but the destructive civil war accelerated the empire's decline. Under Khosrow II,...

Aquileia. Constant then took control of his brother's territories, and there were now only two emperors: Constantius II in the East and Constant in the West...

they could for extended periods, although military officers, such as Heraclius the Elder (Exarch c. 598–610), continued to rotate between the eastern...

the presence of their mother, and with a strong military guard, being in constant fear of assassination. The current stability of their joint government...

coup led by his son Kavadh II, who at once sued for peace, agreeing to withdraw from all occupied territories. Heraclius restored the True Cross to Jerusalem...

Palatino. "The history of the papacy in the early Middle Ages was marked by constantly contested papal elections wherein the various claimants were often proxies...