Emperor Phocas, 602 – 610
11/23/602 AD crowned
Phocas captured Constantinople, and overthrew Maurice, and declared himself emperor on the same day.
The Byzantine army declares Phocas, by then a centurion, to be the new emperor, raising him on a shield (the traditional method of declaring emperors)
The army had rebelled against Emperor Maurice, largely due to exhaustion and outrage over orders to continue campaigning north of the Danube in winter as well as previous cuts in wages.
Phocas was crowned the new emperor by the patriarch in the church of St John the Baptist at the Hebdomon. Several days afterwards he entered Constantinople unopposed.
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