Constantine V

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14659

emperor

Names

  • Arabic: قسطنطين = Qusṭanṭīn 1
  • Syriac: ܩܘܣܛܢܛܝܢܘܣ = QWSṬΝṬYΝWS 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 775

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 127, 155 [Arabic].
    • Constantine V: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 113, 140 [English].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 466 [Syriac].
    • Constantinus (V) Copronyme: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 501-502, 517, 518, 520, 521, 523, 527, 528 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Constantine V” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14659.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; gender assignment, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan; and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: birth/death/floruit dates entry and Wikipedia matching
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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