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Stauracius
Sign in to saveStaurakios or Stauracius (; early 790s – 11 January 812) was the shortest-reigning Byzantine emperor, ruling for 68 days between 26 July and 2 October 811.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Staurakios
- Royalty.title
- Emperor of the Romans
- Royalty.image
- File:INC-1546-r Солид Никифор I и Ставракий ок. 803-811 гг. (аверс).png
- Royalty.image_size
- 250
- Royalty.alt
- An image of a golden coin bearing the front-facing image of Staurakios, who is adorned with imperial regalia
- Royalty.caption
- Staurakios as co-emperor on a gold
- Royalty.succession
- Byzantine emperor
- Royalty.regent
- Nikephoros I (803 – 811)
- Royalty.reg type
- Alongside
- Royalty.reign
- 26 July – 2 October 811
- Royalty.coronation
- 25 December 803
- Royalty.cor type
- byzantine
- Royalty.predecessor
- Nikephoros I
- Royalty.successor
- Michael I
- Royalty.birth_date
- Early 790s
- Royalty.death_date
- 11 January 812
- Royalty.burial_place
- Monastery of Braka
- Royalty.spouse
- Theophano of Athens
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Place of death
- Constantinople
- Spouse
- Theophano of Athens
- Father
- Nikephoros I
- Sibling
- Prokopia
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Byzantine emperor
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Family
- Nikephorian dynasty
- Image
- Solidus-Stauracius.jpg
- Significant event
- abdication
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- Commons category
- Stauracius
- date of death
- 0812-01-11
- date of birth
- 0775-01-01
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- gangrene
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Early life and background
- Reign as co-emperor
- Rule as sole emperor
- Historiography
- Numismatics
- Legacy
- References
- Notes
- Primary sources
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Staurakios or Stauracius (; early 790s – 11 January 812) was the shortest-reigning Byzantine emperor, ruling for 68 days between 26 July and 2 October 811.
He was born in the early 790s, probably between 791 and 793, to Nikephoros I and an unknown woman. Nikephoros seized the throne of the Byzantine Empire from Empress Irene in 802, and elevated Staurakios to co-emperor on 25 December 803. On 20 December 807, a bride show was held by Nikephoros to select a wife for Staurakios, which resulted in his marriage to Theophano of Athens, a kinswoman of Irene. Little else is known of him until he came to take the throne upon the death of Nikephoros.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stauracius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.