Tiberius was Byzantine co-emperor from 659 to 681. He was the son of Constans II and Fausta, who was elevated in 659, before his father departed for Italy. After the death of Constans, Tiberius' broth
Tiberius, mosaic in basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna.
Tiberius and Heraclius on the reverse of a solidus.
Justinian II
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Justinian II, nicknamed "the Slit-Nosed", was the last Byzantine emperor of the Heraclian dynasty, reigning from 685 to 695 and again from 705 to 711. Like his namesake predecessor, Justinian I, Justi
Tiberius (son of Constans II)
…Constantine's power, both he and his brother were now suspect in the senior emperor's eyes; also, the emperor was keen to raise up his own son, the future Justinian II. Sometime between 16 September and 21 December 681, Constantine ordered the mutilation of his brothers by slitting their noses, and ordered that their…
Justinian II Solidus
Mutilation of Justinian II on the orders of Leontius in 695, miniature from a 15th century French manuscript.
Justinian and his son Tiberius, whom he crowned co-emperor in 706.
Justinian's II punitive squad robs Ravenna after the arrest of archbishop Felix in 709 as imagined in an artistic depiction from 1929.