Ruler · 866 – 912

Leo VI the Wise

Lived 866 – 912; composer. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 886 – 912.

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Lived: 866 – 912; 46 years
In office: 26 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 61st of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

57 before

Theophilos829 – 842

Michael III842 – 867

Basil I867 – 886

Leo VI the Wise886 – 912

Alexander912 – 913

Constantine VII913 – 959

Romanos I Lekapenos920 – 944

49 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 886 – 912 · 26 years · came to it aged 20

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; disease

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