Theophilos
Byzantine emperor from 829 to 842
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Updated 2026-06-09
The last Byzantine emperor to enforce iconoclasm — the ban on religious images that split the empire for over a century. His reign ended the controversy; his widow reversed the policy within months of his death.
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Theophilos inherited the throne in 829 and immediately faced invasions from the Abbasid Caliphate in the east and the Aghlabids pressing Sicily. He led his armies personally from 831 onward, winning brief victories before Caliph al-Mu'tasim retaliated with crushing force: the 838 Sack of Amorion destroyed his dynasty's ancestral city. The humiliation drove him toward a harsher iconoclasm than his father Michael II had pursued, and he persecuted clerics who refused to abandon religious images. Yet he also patronized learning — his ally John the Grammarian helped foster ties with the Caliphate a…
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