Constantine Podopagouros
Constantine Podopagouros (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Ποδοπάγουρος; died 25 August 766) was a high-ranking Byzantine official and, with his brother Strategios, leader of a conspiracy against Emperor Constantine V (r. 741–775).
"Podopagouros" is a
Constantine II, after he was implicated by some clergymen in the conspiracy.[4]
In his chronicle, Theophanes portrays the conspiracy as part of a reaction against Constantine V's
Mount Auxentios, whom the emperor had had publicly humiliated and executed the previous November.[5] Modern scholarship on the other hand is not as clear as to the motivations of the emperor, i.e. whether the death of Stephen, or the humiliation and blinding of seventeen of the nineteen officials and other acts of persecution was due to his hardening stance against iconophile sentiment, or had political motives as a reaction to plots against his life (in which Stephen too may have been implicated).[6]
References
- ^ Mango & Scott 1997, p. 606 (note 9).
- ^ a b Mango & Scott 1997, p. 605.
- ^ a b Lilie et al. 2000, Konstantinos Podopaguros (#3822).
- ^ Mango & Scott 1997, pp. 605–606.
- ^ Mango & Scott 1997, pp. 604–605.
- ^ Brubaker & Haldon 2011, pp. 235–239.
Sources
- Brubaker, Leslie; Haldon, John (2011). Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680–850: A History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43093-7.
- ISBN 0-19-822568-7.
- ISBN 978-3-11-016672-9.