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Leontius was a 7th century Byzantine general who served under Emperor Phocas in the context of the Byzantine-Sassanian War (602-628).
In 604, magister militum Germanus was ordered to quell the revolt of a rebel commander named Narses in the city of Edessa. Narses, a loyalist of Emperor Maurice, revolted against Phocas, who usurped and killed the former back in 602. Khosrow II of Persia, who as a result of previously being on good terms with Maurice, grew sympathetic to Narses' cause and sent an army to his aid. Germanus was defeated and killed by the rebel-supporting Persian forces.[1]
Leontius arrived in the region to replace Germanus. He managed to successfully recapture Edessa, while Narses was brought to Constantinople and burned alive. Shortly after, the Sassanians attacked the Roman army once again, defeating Leontius. Phocas had the general recalled and subsequently imprisoned.
Leontius was replaced in Mesopotamia by Phocas' nephew, Domentziolus, who took the title of magister militum per Orientem.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Martindale, John Robert (1992). The prosopography of the later Roman Empire. Cambridge (GB): Cambridge university press. ISBN 978-0-521-20160-5.
- ^ Kaegi, Walter Emil (1981). Byzantine military unrest, 471-843: an interpretation. Amsterdam: Hakkert. ISBN 978-90-256-0902-3.