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After a conspiracy against Irene was suppressed in the spring of 790 she attempted to get official recognition as empress. This backfired and with military support Constantine finally came to actual power in 790, after the
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as 'Emperor of the Romans'. Based on the assertion that a woman could not be Empress in her own right, this laid the foundations of a new polity, independent of the East, that would evolve into the
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rebelled against Irene. Nevertheless, after campaigning unsuccessfully in the Balkans, Constantine restored his mother in 792 after just two years out of power and made her co-ruler.
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Once in control of the state, Constantine proved incapable of sound governance. Constantine himself suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of
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did not publicly speak against it, he did refuse to officiate the marriage. Popular disapproval was expressed by Theodote's uncle,
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in 776, and succeeded as sole emperor in 780, at the age of nine. Due to his minority, Irene and her chief minister
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Constantine suffered military defeats and made controversial decisions, such as blinding his loyal general
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By his mistress and then second wife Theodote, Constantine VI had two sons, both of whom died young:
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illegal act which sparked off the so-called "Moechian Controversy". Although the
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The 2nd Council of Nicaea depicted in a Bulgarian miniature of the 12th century
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sympathies. In 788, Irene herself broke off the engagement of Constantine with
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The daughter of a Byzantine Emperor – the wife of a Galician-Volhynian Prince
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An unnamed son (posthumously 797/8 – between 802 and 808)
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In 787, Constantine, then 16 years old had signed the decrees of the
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Constantine VI was the final ruler to be universally recognized as
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claimed to be Constantine VI in an effort to gain support against
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Irene (789 – after July 796), who became a nun
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By his first wife Maria, Constantine VI had two daughters:
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Grierson, Philip; Mango, Cyril; Ševčenko, Ihor (1962).
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Ecumenical Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople
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Index

Bulgarian campaigns of Constantine VI
Ecumenical Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople
Emperor of the Romans

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Byzantine emperor
Coronation
Leo IV
Irene
Maria of Amnia
Theodote
Issue
Detail
Euphrosyne
Dynasty
Isaurian
Leo IV
Irene of Athens
Isaurian dynasty
Leo III
Constantine V
Constantine V
Leo IV
Artabasdos
Nikephoros
Leo IV
Constantine VI
Constantine VI
Irene
Irene

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