Leo's widow Irene becomes guardian of their…

781 CE

Leo's widow Irene becomes guardian of their ten-year-old son, Constantine VI, and co-emperor with him.

Irene decries the practice of forced conversion, and, with clerical support, calls for conversion only of those who voluntarily confess and rejects Judaism and its “customs and pursuits.”

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