Editing Constans II (section)

== Death and succession ==
[[File:La morte di Costante II.PNG|thumb|The death of Constans II from the book ''Hutchinson's History of the Nations'' (c. 1920)]]
On 15 July 668,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Grierson|first=Philip|date=1962|title=The Tombs and Obits of the Byzantine Emperors (337–1042)|url=https://archive.org/details/SevcenkoStudies19611992/page/n70/mode/1up|journal=[[Dumbarton Oaks Papers]]|volume=16|pages=49–50|doi=10.2307/1291157 |jstor=1291157}}</ref>{{sfn|Grierson|1968|p=402}} he was [[assassinate]]d in his bath by his [[Chamberlain (office)|chamberlain]], either killed with a [[bucket]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Theophanes the Confessor |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34704963 |title=The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284-813 |date=1997 |publisher=Clarendon Press |others=Cyril A. Mango, Roger Scott, Geoffrey Greatrex |isbn=0-19-822568-7 |location=Oxford |pages=491 |oclc=34704963}}</ref> or stabbed with a knife.<ref name=odb>''[[Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium|ODB]]'', "[https://archive.org/details/odb_20210521/page/496/mode/2up?view=theater Constans II]", p. 496</ref> His son Constantine succeeded him as [[Constantine IV]]. A brief usurpation in Sicily by [[Mezezius]] was quickly suppressed by the new emperor.