Ruler · 425 – 491

Zeno

Lived 425 – 491; monarch, politician. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 474 – 475 and 1 more term.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 425 – 491; 66 years
In office: 16 years; 2 reigns
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: exiled; the ruler's own article

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 15th and 19th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

11 before

Verina457 – 474

Zeno474 – 475

Zeno476 – 491

Anastasius I Dicorus491 – 518

Justin I518 – 527

91 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 474 – 475 · 1 year · came to it aged 49 · term 1 of 2

Came to it: the parent of the ruler before, on record
Left it: exiledread from the ruler's own article

the article also: exiled, imprisoned or confined

In early 475, he was forced to flee Constantinople in a revolt orchestrated in part by dowager Empress Verina, which concluded with Leo I's brother-in-law Basiliscus installing himself as emperor.

Reigned 476 – 491 · 15 years · came to it aged 51 · term 2 of 2

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

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