Ruler · 401 – 474

Leo I

Lived 401 – 474; politician, military personnel. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 457 – 474.

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Lived: 401 – 474; 73 years
In office: 17 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 12th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

8 before

Aelia Eudocia421 – 450

Pulcheria450 – 453

Marcian450 – 457

Leo I457 – 474

Verina457 – 474

Leo II474

Zeno474 – 475

98 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 457 – 474 · 17 years · came to it aged 56

Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; dysentery

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