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* 474 – Leo II, Byzantine Emperor ( b. 467 )
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474 and Leo
The Eastern Emperor Leo, who died in 474, had appointed the western emperors Anthemius and Julius Nepos, and Constantinople never recognized the new government.
In the mean-time, Leo I died in January 474 and was succeeded by his grandson, the young Leo, who chose his own father Zeno as co-emperor after a short time.
For example, he did not choose a second Consul in order to allow Leo II to be Consul alone for the year 474.
Nepos, already the ruler of Roman Dalmatia, was nominated by the Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I in early 474, to replace the Western Emperor Glycerius, who was regarded as a usurper.
Nepos was married to the niece of Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I, hence his nepos — " nephew " — agnomen, and was named as Emperor in the West by Leo in 474, in order to end the reign of the usurper Glycerius, who had been raised to the throne by the Burgundian magister militum Gundobad in the western capital of Ravenna.
Ruling the Eastern Empire for nearly 20 years from 457 to 474, Leo proved to be a capable ruler, overseeing many ambitious political and military plans, aimed mostly for the aid of the faltering Western Roman Empire and recovering its former territories.
Coin of Leo II ( emperor ) | Leo II, minted in the name of " Leo and Zeno perpetual Augusti "; it belongs to the period when both Zeno and his son were joint emperors, between 9 February and 17 November 474.
474 and II
On 18 January 474, Leo I died ; if Leo II had not already been proclaimed co-emperor by his grandfather, he would have become Augustus on that occasion.
Since Leo II was seven years old ( too young to rule himself ) Ariadne and her mother Verina prevailed upon him to crown Zeno, his father, as co-emperor, which he did on 9 February 474.
At the death of Leo, Zeno, who was a " barbarian " of Isaurian stock, but at the same time son-in-law of Leo, ascended to Emperor, after a short reign of his own son Leo II ( 474 ).
Kumaragupta II is believed to have been ruling in AD 473 – 474, Buddhagupta from AD 476 – 495, Vainyagupta in AD 508 and Bhanugupta in AD 510 – 511.
Since Leo II was too young to rule himself, Verina and Ariadne prevailed upon him to crown Zeno as co-emperor, which he did on February 9, 474.
* 474, Deposition of Western Emperor Glycerius, Death of Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian, Poisoning of Byzantine Emperor Leo II.
Ariadne and Zeno had a son, Leo II, who succeeded his grandfather as Emperor in 474 ( and was convinced by his mother and grandmother to elevate his father to co-Emperor ); Leo II's death left his father sole Emperor in the East, producing the altogether curious spectacle of a grandson succeeding his grandfather without his father's predecease, and then in turn being succeeded by his own father.
The numbers of the agentes tended towards inflation, and the corps was viewed with a measure of mistrust by the emperors, who repeatedly tried to regulate its size: 1, 174 in the year 430 according to a law of Theodosius II, and 1, 248 under Leo I ( 457 – 474 ).
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