
Theophilus, in the Chronicle of John Skylitzes
Theophilos (Greek: Θεόφιλος; sometimes Latinized or Anglicized as Theophilus or Theophilo; 800-805 – 20 January 842 AD) was the Byzantine Emperor from 829 until his death in 842. He was the second emperor of the Amorian dynasty and the last emperor to support iconoclasm.[1] Theophilos personally led the armies in his long war against the Arabs, beginning in 831.