House of Leo
The House of Leo or the Leonid Dynasty ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 457 to 518 (and varying parts of the Western Roman Empire from 474 to 480).[1]
Dalmatia under Julius Nepos
| Leonid dynasty | |||
| Chronology | |||
| Leo I | 457–474 | ||
| Leo II | 474 | ||
| Zeno | 474–491 | ||
| Usurpation of Basiliscus | 475–476 | ||
| Anastasius I | 491–518 | ||
| Succession | |||
| Preceded by Theodosian dynasty |
Followed by Justinian dynasty | ||
Julius Nepos ruled a Roman rump state of Dalmatia after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.[1]
List of Leonid rulers of the Byzantine Empire
The emperors of the House of Leo were:[2]
- Leo I the Thracian (Valerius Leo) (401–474, ruled 457–474) – soldier
- Leo II (467–474, ruled 474) – grandson of Leo I, son of Zeno
- Zeno (425–491, ruled 474–475) – son-in-law of Leo I; orig. Tarasicodissa, an Isaurian
- Basiliscus ( ? – c. 477, ruled 475–476) – usurper; brother-in-law of Leo I
- Zeno (ruled 476–491) – restored
- Anastasius I (430–518, ruled 491–518) – silentiarius; son-in-law of Leo I, elevated by selection by Zeno's widow Ariadne
List of other notable members of the dynasty
Other members of the House of Leo were:
- Aelia Verina, wife of Leo I and sister of Basiliscus
- Armatus, general, nephew of Basiliscus and Verina
- Ariadne, daughter of Leo I, mother of Leo II and wife of Zeno and then Anastasius I
- Julius Nepos, Western Roman Emperor, husband of a niece of Leo I.[1]
- Hypatius, a nephew of Anastasius I and an influential Greens senator, was placed as the candidate to the purple during the Nika riots against the later emperor Justinian I. May be counted as a member of the Leonid dynasty due to being related to one of their emperors.
Family tree
| 1.(wife) | Marcian emperor of the East 450-457 | 2.Pulcheria THEODOSIAN DYNASTY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basiliscus emperor of the East 475-476 ∞ Zenonis | Verina | Leo I the Thracian emperor of the East 457-474 | (1) Marcia Euphemia | Anthemius emperor of the West 467-472 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vigilantia | Justin I emperor of the Romans 518-527 | (sibling) | (sibling) | 2.Anastasius I Dicorus emperor of the Romans 491-518 | Ariadne | 1.Zeno emperor of the East 474-475; emperor of the Romans 476-491 | Leontia | Marcian usurper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Justinian I emperor of the Romans 527-565 JUSTINIAN DYNASTY | Theodora | (daughter) | Irene ∞ Olybrius consul 491 Theodosian dynasty | Leo II emperor of the East 474 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (illeg.) Theodora | Anastasius consul 517 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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References
- Lars Ulwencreutz (November 2013). Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V. Ulwencreutz Media. pp. 257–258. ISBN 978-1-304-58135-8.
- Lars Brownworth (15 September 2009). Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization. Crown/Archetype. pp. 309–310. ISBN 978-0-307-46241-1.
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