id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1063 Philippikos Bardanes - Wikipedia .html text/html 1469 286 59 Philippikos or Philippicus (Greek: Φιλιππικός) was the Byzantine emperor of the from 711 to 713. Philippicus was originally named Bardanes (Greek: Βαρδάνης, Vardanis; Armenian: Վարդան, Vardan); according to some scholars he was the son of the patrician Nikephorus, who was of Armenian extraction from an Armenian colony in Pergamum.[1] Antony Kaldellis suggests his origin probably Persian.[2] Several of their officers penetrated the city and blinded Philippicus on June 3, 713 while he was in the hippodrome.[3] He was succeeded for a short while by his principal secretary, Artemius, who was raised to the purple as Emperor Anastasius II. Constantine III with son Constans II Constantine IV with brothers Heraclius and Tiberius and then Justinian II as co-emperors Justinian II (second reign) with son Tiberius as co-emperor Leo V the Armenian with Symbatios-Constantine as junior emperor Romanos I Lekapenos with sons Christopher, Stephen and Constantine as junior co-emperors John II Komnenos with Alexios Komnenos as co-emperor 8th-century Byzantine emperors Armenian Byzantine emperors Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1063.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1063.txt