Seven-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_II_(emperor)" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leo II (emperor)">Leo II</a> succeeds his maternal grandfather <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_I_(emperor)" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leo I (emperor)">Leo I</a> as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_emperor" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine emperor">Byzantine emperor</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_18#cite_note-1" id="mwFA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFQ">[1]</span></a></sup> He dies ten months later.
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMeijer2004"><a href="./Fik_Meijer" id="mwB0E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fik Meijer">Meijer, Fik</a> (31 July 2004). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3uN_AgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA158" id="mwB0I" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB0M">Emperors Don't Die in Bed</i></a>. Routledge. p.<span id="mwB0Q" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>158. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB0U" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB0Y" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/1-134-38405-X" id="mwB0c" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/1-134-38405-X"><bdi id="mwB0g">1-134-38405-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwB0k" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Emperors+Don%27t+Die+in+Bed&amp;rft.pages=158&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2004-07-31&amp;rft.isbn=1-134-38405-X&amp;rft.aulast=Meijer&amp;rft.aufirst=Fik&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3uN_AgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA158&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+18"></span></span>