Editing Constantine V (section)

{{Short description|Byzantine Emperor from 741 to 775}}
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| title        = [[List of Byzantine emperors|Emperor of the Romans]]
| name         = Constantine V
| image        = Solidus of Constantine V (transparent background).png
| caption      = ''[[Solidus (coin)|Solidus]]'' of Constantine V
| succession   = [[Byzantine emperor]]
| reign        = 18 June 741 – 14 September 775
| coronation   = 31 March 720<ref name=PBE>PBE (2001) [http://www.pbe.kcl.ac.uk/data/D43/F18.htm Konstantinos 7] (#3703)</ref>
| cor-type     = [[Coronation of the Byzantine emperor|Coronation]]
| predecessor  = [[Leo III the Isaurian]]
| successor    = [[Leo IV the Khazar]]
| regent       = {{ubl
 | [[Artabasdos]] (741–743)
 | [[Nikephoros (son of Artabasdos)|Nikephoros]] (741–743)
}}
| reg-type     = Rival emperors
| spouse 1     = [[Tzitzak]] ("Irene of Khazaria")
| spouse 2     = [[Maria, wife of Constantine V|Maria]]
| spouse 3     = [[Eudokia, wife of Constantine V|Eudokia]]
| issue        = {{ubl
 | [[Leo IV the Khazar|Leo IV]]
 | [[Nikephoros (Caesar)|Nikephoros]]
 |  Christopher
 |  Niketas
 |  Eudokimos
 |  Anthimos
 |  [[Anthusa of Constantinople|Anthousa]]
}}
| dynasty      = [[Byzantine Empire under the Isaurian dynasty|Isaurian]]
| father       = [[Leo III the Isaurian]]
| mother       = [[Maria, wife of Leo III|Maria]]
| birth_date   = July 718{{sfn|Nikephoros|1990|p=125 (chapter 56)}}
| birth_place  = [[Constantinople]]<br />(now [[Istanbul]], Turkey)
| death_date   = 14 September 775 (aged 57)
| religion     = [[Chalcedonian Christianity]]
}}
{{Isaurian dynasty}}
'''Constantine V''' ({{langx|el|Κωνσταντῖνος|Kōnstantīnos}}; July 718 – 14 September 775) was [[Byzantine emperor]] from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of [[Third Fitna|civil war]] in the Muslim world to make limited offensives on the [[Al-'Awasim|Arab frontier]]. With this eastern frontier secure, he undertook repeated campaigns against the [[First Bulgarian Empire|Bulgars]] in the [[Balkans]]. His military activity, and policy of settling Christian populations from the Arab frontier in [[Thrace]], made Byzantium's hold on its Balkan territories more secure. He was also responsible for important military and administrative innovations and reforms.

Religious strife and controversy was a prominent feature of his reign. His fervent support of [[Byzantine Iconoclasm|iconoclasm]] and opposition to [[Christian monasticism|monasticism]] led to his vilification by some contemporary commentators and the majority of later Byzantine writers, who denigrated him with the nicknames "'''Dung-Named'''" ({{langx|grc|Κοπρώνυμος|Koprónymos}}), because he allegedly defaecated during his baptism,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Cholij |first=Roman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lL40wXlfa2UC&pg=PA12 |title=Theodore the Stoudite: The Ordering of Holiness |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-19-924846-9 |pages=12}}</ref><ref name="PBE" /> similarly "'''Anointed with Urine'''" ({{langx|grc|Οὐραλύφιος|Ouralýphios}}),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lampte |first=G.W.H. |author-link=Geoffrey Hugo Lampe |url=https://archive.org/details/a-patristic-greek-lexicon-edited-by-g.-w.-h.-lampe.-1961pdf/page/977/mode/2up |title=A Patristic Greek Lexicon |date=1961 |publisher=Clarendon |pages=977, after [[Theodore the Studite]].}}</ref> and "'''the Equestrian'''" ({{langx|grc|Καβαλλίνος|Kaballinos}}), referencing the excrement of horses.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bury |first1=J. B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yA45d5-p7bwC&pg=PA462 |title=A History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 A.D.) |date=1889 |publisher= |isbn=978-1-4021-8368-3 |page=462 |author-link=J. B. Bury}}</ref>