Mezezius
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Mizizios or Mezezius (; or ) was an Armenian noble who served as a general of Byzantium, later usurping the Byzantine throne in Sicily from 668 to 669.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- MiziziosՄժէժ
- Royalty.title
- Usurper of the Byzantine Empire
- Royalty.image
- Mezezius.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- A solidus of Mizizios struck in Syracuse, Sicily
- Royalty.reign
- 668–669
- Royalty.predecessor
- Constans II
- Royalty.successor
- Constantine IV
- Royalty.birth_date
- 622
- Royalty.death_date
- 669 (Aged 46-47)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- Byzantine emperor
- Family
- Gnuni
- Image
- Mezezius.jpg
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- date of death
- 0668-00-00
- date of birth
- 0622-01-01
- cause of death
- decapitation
- floruit
- 0700-00-00
- ethnic group
- Armenians
- manner of death
- unnatural death
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Origin and early career
- Usurpation and death
- Footnotes
- References
- Sources
- External links
Mizizios or Mezezius (; or ) was an Armenian noble who served as a general of Byzantium, later usurping the Byzantine throne in Sicily from 668 to 669.
== Origin and early career == According to the Byzantine chroniclers, Mizizios was an Armenian, and "exceedingly handsome and beautiful". According to Cyril Toumanoff, he descended from the princely Gnuni family. In a letter supposedly written by Pope Gregory II to the Emperor Leo III the Isaurian (r. 717–741 A.D), he is referred to as komes of the Opsikion ()—at that time not yet a province, but rather the emperor's personal military retinue and field army. The 12th-century Syriac chronicle of Michael the Syrian, and the so-called Chronicle of 1234, also accord him the rank of patrikios.
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