Justinian II (Heraclian) Augustus
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Justinian Rhinotmetos (Heraclian) Augustus (669 - abt. 711)

Justinian Rhinotmetos (Justinian II) "Byzantine Emperor" Augustus formerly Heraclian
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Died about at about age 42 in Damatrys, Opsikion, Byzantine Empiremap
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Justinian II (Greek: Ἰουστινιανός Β΄, Ioustinianos II, Latin: Flavius Iustinianus Augustus) (668 – 11 December 711), surnamed the Rhinotmetos or Rhinotmetus (ὁ Ῥινότμητος, "the slit-nosed"), was the last Byzantine Emperor of the Heraclian Dynasty, reigning from 685 to 695 and again from 705 to 711.

Justinian II was an ambitious and passionate ruler who was keen to restore the Empire to its former glories, but he responded poorly to any opposition to his will and lacked the finesse of his father, Constantine IV. Consequently, he generated enormous opposition to his reign, resulting in his deposition in 695 in a popular uprising, and he only returned to the throne in 705 with the help of a Bulgar and Slav army.

His second reign was even more despotic than the first, and it too saw his eventual overthrow in 711, abandoned by his army who turned on him before killing him.

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Athey-67 Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill
Heraclian-1 and Rhinotmetos-1 appear to represent the same person because: apparent duplicates.
posted on Rhinotmetos-1 (merged) by Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill
Lowe-866 Karen Lowe
Please resolve this unmerged match. I am removing the link from Heraclian-1 to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42021 because there cannot be two WikiTree IDs for one Wikidata person. We can correct the ID anytime, but there can be only one...
posted by Karen Lowe
edited by Karen Lowe
Britton-1422 Michele Britton
Of Byzantium-43 and Rhinotmetos-1 are not ready to be merged because: Yes, these 2 look like the same person...but there is a bit of clean up work to do on the connected relatives of each profile first. There's no shortage of duplicates here.
posted on Rhinotmetos-1 (merged) by Michele Britton
Fields-574 Bob Fields
Of Byzantium-43 and Rhinotmetos-1 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate entry for emperor Justinian II. Rhinometos or Heraclian (dynasty) should be the LNAB
posted on Rhinotmetos-1 (merged) by Bob Fields

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