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Flavius Julius Constans (c. 323 – 350), also called Constans I, was Roman emperor from 337 to 350. He held the imperial rank of caesar from 333, and was the youngest son of Constantine the Great. After his father's death, he was made augustus alongside his brothers in September 337.
Dec 7, 2017 · Constans II (aka Konstans II) was emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 641 to 668 CE. Sometimes known as Constans Pogonatos (“the Bearded”), he came to the throne by a series of unlikely events and his empire was immediately challenged almost everywhere by the rising Arab Caliphate.
Constans I was a Roman emperor from 337 to 350. The youngest son of Constantine the Great (reigned 306–337), Constans was proclaimed caesar by his father on December 25, 333. When Constantine died on September 9, 337, Constans and his two brothers, Constantius II and Constantine II, each adopted.
Constans II (Greek: Κώνστας, translit. Kōnstas ; 7 November 630 – 15 July 668), also called " the Bearded " ( Latin : Pogonatus ; Greek : ὁ Πωγωνᾶτος , translit. ho Pōgōnãtos ), [c] was the Byzantine emperor from 641 to 668.
Constans II Pogonatus (born November 7, 630, Constantinople [now Istanbul]—died September 15, 668, Syracuse, Sicily) was a Byzantine (Eastern Roman) emperor whose reign saw the loss of Byzantium’s southern and eastern provinces to the Arabs.
Constans was one of the three sons of Constantine the Great who divided the empire after his death in 337. He invaded and defeated his brother Constantine II in 340, but was overthrown and killed by a Gallic noble in 350.
Constans II (Constans Pogonatus), 630–68, Byzantine emperor (641–68), son and successor of Constantine III and grandson of Heraclius. Early in his reign Armenia and Asia Minor were invaded by the Muslims, who challenged Byzantine supremacy at sea, took Cyprus, and threatened Sicily and Constantinople.
