Constantine II paraded through the Hippodrome of Constantinople on a donkey and later beheaded, 767. He was deposed and jailed after the discovery of Constantine Podopagouros' plot against Emperor Constantine V in June 766, in which the patriarch was later implicated. Constantine II, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 754 to 766. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
Constantine II paraded through the Hippodrome of Constantinople on a donkey and later beheaded, 767. He was deposed and jailed after the discovery of Constantine Podopagouros' plot against Emperor Constantine V in June 766, in which the patriarch was later implicated. Constantine II, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 754 to 766. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.