Ruler · 539 – 602

Maurice

Lived 539 – 602; military leader, politician. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 582 – 602; also in the line of Justinian dynasty.

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Lived: 539 – 602; 63 years
In office: 20 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 29th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

25 before

Sophia565 – 578

Tiberius II Constantine574 – 582

Ino Anastasia578 – 582

Maurice582 – 602

Constantina582 – 602

Phocas602 – 610

Heraclius610 – 641

81 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 582 – 602 · 20 years · came to it aged 43

Came to it: the in-law of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; decapitation

Maurice was murdered at the harbour of Eutropius on 27 November 602.

Also in the line of Justinian dynasty (8th of 8).

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