page_title: Constantine V
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Constantine V / Family
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Преподобная Анфуса Омонийская (фрагмент греческой иконы святых византийских императоров) English: Saint Anfusa (part of the greec icon)
context_page_description: Constantine V was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of civil war in the Muslim world to make limited offensives on the Arab frontier. With this eastern frontier secure, he undertook repeated campaigns against the Bulgars in the Balkans. His military activity, and policy of settling Christian populations from the Arab frontier in Thrace, made Byzantium's hold on its Balkan territories more secure. Religious strife and controversy was a prominent feature of his reign. His fervent support of Iconoclasm and opposition to monasticism led to his vilification by later Byzantine historians and writers, who denigrated him as Kopronymos or Copronymus, meaning the dung-named.
context_section_description: By his first wife, Tzitzak ("Irene of Khazaria"), Constantine V had one son:
  Leo IV, who succeeded as emperor.
  By his second wife, Maria, Constantine V is not known to have had children.
  By his third wife, Eudokia, Constantine V had five sons and a daughter:
  Christopher, Caesar (title)
  Nikephoros, Caesar
  Niketas, Nobelissimos (title)
  Eudokimos, Nobelissimos
  Anthimos, Nobelissimos
  Anthousa (an iconodule, after her father's death she became a nun, she was later venerated as Saint Anthousa the Younger
caption: Icon of St. Anthousa, daughter of Constantine V
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