id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3370 Artabasdos - Wikipedia .html text/html 1556 287 59 After Anastasius' fall, Artabasdos made an agreement with his colleague Leo, the governor of the Anatolic theme, to overthrow the new Emperor Theodosius III. In June 741 or 742, after the accession of Leo's son Constantine V to the throne, Artabasdos resolved to seize the throne and attacked his brother-in-law while the latter was traversing Asia Minor to fight the Arabs on the eastern frontier. While it seems Artabasdos abandoned his predecessor's religious policy of Iconoclasm and restored Orthodoxy with some support, there is actually little support from contemporary sources.[1] Soon after his accession, Artabasdus crowned his wife Anna as Augusta and his son Nikephoros as co-emperor, while putting his other son Niketas in charge of the Armeniac theme. By his wife Anna, the daughter of Emperor Leo III, Artabasdos had nine children, including: Constantine III with son Constans II Constantine IV with brothers Heraclius and Tiberius and then Justinian II as co-emperors ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3370.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3370.txt