Constans II
Byzantine Emperor from 641 to 668
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The last Byzantine emperor to set foot in Rome while it was still his — and the first to visit since the Western Empire collapsed nearly two centuries before. He ruled through the opening waves of Arab conquest, tried to silence theological arguments by imperial decree, and died violently far from Constantinople.
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Constans II took the throne in 641 at ten years old, inheriting an empire already buckling under pressure. He served as consul in 642, the last emperor on record to hold the ancient office. By 648 he issued the Typos, an edict that banned all debate over the nature of Christ — his attempt to quiet the feuding Orthodox and Monothelite camps by decree rather than doctrine. The late 640s through the 660s brought relentless Arab invasions under three successive caliphs, and Constans spent much of his reign trying to hold the line. In the 660s he traveled west to Rome, the first emperor to visit si…
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