Link Between Turbulent of Rome (767-768 on Sede Vacante), Antipope Constantine II & Iconoclasm
Antipope Constantine II was blinded by Pope Stephen III guardsmen Antipope Constantine II (Latin: Constantinus; died c. 769) was a Roman prelate who claimed the papacy from 28 June 767 to 6 August 768. Constantine was born into a noble Roman family in Nepi near Viterbo. He was one of four brothers, of which the most prominent was Toto of Nepi . Toto, the papal governor and self-styled "Duke" of Nepi, began to position himself to take advantage of the expected death of Pope Paul I, and elevate his own candidate onto the papal throne. Christophorus, the primicerius of the notaries, forced Toto to take an oath to respect the traditional clerical method of papal elections . Toto, however, having retired to his estates in Nepi, with the help of Constantine and his other brothers collected troops from his duchy and other parts of Tuscany, in addition to arming a group of peasants to swell the numbers. About why Toto expected for death of Pope Paul I, because Pope Paul...