Theophilos

Theophilos (c. 812–842), Amorian emperor, was crowned co-emperor by his father Michael II in 821 and ruled alone from 829. He executed his father's accomplices in Leo V's murder to prove his justice. His 832 edict banning icon veneration made him Byzantium's last iconoclast ruler, and he persecuted defiant clerics.

He won at Charsianon in 831 and took Melitene in 837, but Caliph al-Mu'tasim sacked Amorion, the ancestral home of his dynasty, in 838. He died on 20 January 842, and his widow Theodora soon restored the icons.