" As mentioned above, William was opposed to Baldwin's mother Agnes of Courtenay, Patriarch Heraclius, and their supporters ; his interpretation of events during Baldwin's reign was previously taken as fact almost without question.

By the early 7th century, the official government language segued into Greek during the lengthy reign of Heraclius ( 610 – 641 ).

Towards the end of Heraclius ' reign he obtained through his mother ’ s influence the title of Augustus on July 4, 638, and after his father ’ s death was proclaimed joint emperor with his older half-brother Constantine III ( Herakleios Constantine ).

He put his father and eighteen brothers to death and began negotiations with Heraclius, but died after a reign of a few months.

Princeps, because of its republican connotation, was most commonly used to refer to the emperor in Latin ( although the emperor's actual constitutional position was essentially " pontifex maximus with tribunician power and imperium superseding all others ") as it was in keeping with the façade of the restored Republic ; the Greek word basileus (" king ") was modified to be synonymous with emperor ( and primarily came into favour after the reign of Heraclius ) as the Greeks had no republican sensibility and openly viewed the emperor as a monarch.

His brothers Heraclius and Tiberius had been crowned with him as Augusti during the reign of their father, and this was confirmed by the demand of the populace, but in 681 Constantine had them mutilated so they would be ineligible to rule.

By the time of Heraclius in the 7th century many of the titles had become obsolete ; by the time of Alexius I, many of the positions were either new or drastically changed, but they remained basically the same from Alexius ' reign to the fall of the Empire in 1453.

The exact time of this event is also unknown but probably coincided with the reign of Emperor Heraclius ( r. 610 – 641 ).

Only in a reign of Catherine the Great in 1768 troops of general Gottlieb Heinrich Totleben were sent to join forces of King Heraclius II of Georgia who hoped to reconquer the Ottoman-held southern Georgian lands in conjunction with Russia.

Around 630, during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, Serbs and Croats ( Slavic tribes ) led by their respective aristocracies entered the western Balkans from the north, which was approved by the emperor.

The custom in its modern state was created with the exposure to Christianity during the reign of emperor Heraclius ( 610-641 ) or later at the time of the final Christianization of the Serbs during the rule of Basil I ( 867-886 ) by Byzantine missionairies of Constantinople Cyril and Methodius.

In this role, praetorian prefects continued to be appointed until the reign of Heraclius, when wide-ranging reforms reduced its power and converted it to a mere overseer of provincial administration.

After the reign of Emperor Heraclius and the loss of all of its overseas borders, Byzantine territories were pretty much limited to the Balkans and Anatolia.

Moreover, it can refer to the primacy of Greek culture and the Greek language after the reign of Emperor Heraclius ( r. 610 – 641 ) in the 7th century.

His account adds considerably to our knowledge of the reign of Phocas and particularly to the successful revolt against him begun at Carthage by Heraclius.

According to tradition, it depicts Heraclius ( reign 610-641 AD ); though this is most unlikely on historical and art-historical grounds.

The Theotokos ' intercession, asked through veneration and prayer before the icon, was credited with saving Constantinople from the Persians during the reign of Heraclius and later from the Arabs.

The Unknown Archon is a conventional name given by historians to the Serbian leader who led the White Serbs from their homeland to settle in the Balkans after 610, during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius ( 610 – 641 ).

He is described as being a successor alongside an unnamed brother to a Serb king and having led part of the Serbs from White Serbia during the reign of Emperor Heraclius.

The building of Saint Martin began 965 under the reign of Heraclius

Its name comes from its system of chronology based on the Christian paschal cycle ; its Greek author named it " Epitome of the ages from Adam the first man to the 20th year of the reign of the most August Heraclius.

For the years 600 to 627 the author writes as a contemporary historian-that is, through the last years of emperor Maurice, the reign of Phocas, and the first seventeen years of the reign of Heraclius.

The work was probably written during the last ten years of the reign of Heraclius.

* Cyril Leo Heraclius, Prince Toumanoff ( born Toumanishvili ) ( 1913 – 1997 ), Russian-born historian and genealogist who was a Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University

Of particular note was the translation of the Latin Imperator into the Greek Basileus, after Emperor Heraclius changed the official language of the empire from Roman to Greek in 620 AD.

Heraclius (,, c. 575 – February 11, 641 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 610 to 641.

The year Heraclius came to power, the empire was threatened on multiple frontiers.

However, because Constantinople was protected by impenetrable walls and a strong navy, Heraclius was able to avoid total defeat.

They were fairly evenly matched in background and education, but politically they were allied with opposite parties, as Heraclius was one of Agnes of Courtenay's supporters.

The canons of the Holy Sepulchre asked the king for advice, and Heraclius was chosen through Agnes ' influence.

In 1184, Patriarch Heraclius travelled throughout the courts of Europe, but no help was forthcoming.

Heraclius offered the " keys of the Holy Sepulchre, those of the Tower of David and the banner of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ", but not the crown itself, to both Philip II of France and Henry II of England ; the latter, as a grandson of Fulk, was a first cousin of the royal family of Jerusalem, and had promised to go on crusade after the murder of Thomas Becket.

Despite a number of reforms, the Legion system survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and was continued in the Eastern Roman Empire until around 7th century, when reforms begun by Emperor Heraclius to counter the increasing need for soldiers around the Empire resulted in the Theme system.

Later, Kubrat was crowned with the title Patrician by Heraclius.

His full name was Yuhanna ( or Yanah ) ibn Mansur ibn Sarjun (), named for his grandfather Mansur, who had been responsible for the taxes of the region under the Emperor Heraclius.

He usurped the throne from the Emperor Maurice, and was himself overthrown by Heraclius after losing a civil war.

Phocas was captured and brought before Heraclius, who asked, " Is this how you have ruled, wretch?

In 1179, William was one of the delegates from Jerusalem and the other crusader states at the Third Lateran Council ; among the others were Heraclius, archbishop of Caesarea, Joscius, bishop of Acre and William's future successor in Tyre, the bishops of Sebastea, Bethlehem, Tripoli, and Jabala, and the abbot of Mount Sion.

They were fairly evenly matched in background and education, but politically they were allied with opposite parties, as Heraclius was one of Agnes of Courtenay's supporters.

It seems that the canons of the Holy Sepulchre were unable to decide, and asked the king for advice ; due to Agnes ' influence, Heraclius was elected.

Heraclius had set out to much of his Empire from the Persians and had attempted to bridge the controversy with Monophysitism, which was particularly strong in Syria and Egypt, by proposing a moderate theological position that had as good support in the tradition as any other.

This doctrine was accepted in most of the Byzantine world, but was opposed at Jerusalem and at Rome and started a controversy that persisted even after the loss of the reconquered provinces and the death of Heraclius.

The Byzantine emperor Heraclius tried to unite all of the various factions within the Empire with this new formula that was more inclusive and more elastic.