Mezezius
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- For the Armenian ruler of the same name see Mjej Gnuni.
Mezezius also known as Mecetius, Byzantine usurper in Sicily from 668 to 669. a noble Armenian from the Gnuni clan at the court of the emperor in Syracuse, who may have been complicit in the murder of Constans II at the baths of Daphne in 668, according to Oman. He was proclaimed emperor by the army and reigned in Sicily for a few months. However, when the news of the assassination of Constans II reached the son Constantine IV in Constantinople, an expedition was managed to depose and kill him. His court was deported to Constantinople.
[edit] Bibliography
- Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum. Liber V
- Oman, Charles William Chadwick, The Dark Ages, 476-918 (1903) p. 246.
[edit] External links
- De Imperatoribus Romanis: Mezezius, Revolt and Brief Reign
- History of the Longobards from Paulus Diaconus
- Coin minted by Mezezius
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