Ruler · 660 – 706

Leontius

Lived 660 – 706; ruler. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 695 – 698.

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Lived: 660 – 706; 46 years
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 41st of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

37 before

Heraclius659 – 681

Anastasia668 – 685

Justinian II685 – 695

Leontius695 – 698

Tiberius III698 – 705

Justinian II705 – 711

Philippicus711 – 713

69 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 695 – 698 · 3 years · came to it aged 35

Came to it: seized power
Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

After being released, he led a rebellion against Justinian, and seized power, becoming emperor in the same year.

He ruled until 698, when he was overthrown by Apsimarus, a droungarios who had taken part in a failed expedition that had been launched by Leontius to recover Carthage.

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