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Also known as Mizizios

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
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 sections
Contents
  • 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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