Justin II
520 CE – 578 CE · aged 58
Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 565 to 574 (520-578)
- Born
- 520 CE · Constantinople
- Died
- 578 CE · Constantinople
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- 520 CEBornBorn in Constantinople
- 565 CE – 574 CERoleByzantine emperor
- 578 CEDiedDied in Constantinople
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Biography
Justin II (Latin: Iustinus; Ancient Greek: Ἰουστῖνος, romanised: Ioustînos; died 4 October 578) was Eastern Roman emperor from 565 until 578. He was the nephew of Justinian I and the husband of Sophia, the niece of Justinian's wife Theodora.
Justin II inherited a greatly enlarged but overextended empire. He ended the payment of tributes and adopted a hardline stance against the empire's neighbours, which resulted in both the resumption of war with the Sassanid Empire in 572, with little success, as well as the initiation of the Byzantine-Lombard wars in 568, which eventually cost the Romans much of their territory in Italy. His later reign was marked by severe mental illness. He was the last person to rule the entire Italian peninsula until Napoleon.
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