Eldest son of Constantine V who appeared to share his father's iconoclast mindset but was weakened, likely by the tuberculosis that killed him, and weakly acquiesced to his iconodule wife Irene — allowing exiled monks to return and appointing an iconodule patriarch. He died in the fifth year of his reign leaving his ten-year-old son Constantine as heir.
Also known as: Leo IV the Khazar
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Episode 11 (1 mention)
Eldest son of Constantine V who appeared to share his father's iconoclast mindset but was weakened, likely by the tuberculosis that killed him, and weakly acquiesced to his iconodule wife Irene — allowing exiled monks to return and appointing an iconodule patriarch. He died in the fifth year of his reign leaving his ten-year-old son Constantine as heir.
“sons, the eldest, Leo IV, seemed to be of the same mindset.”
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