Heraclius (Greek: Ἡράκλειος, romanized: Hērákleios, Arabic: هِرَقْل, romanized: Hiraql; c. 575 – 11 February 641) was Eastern Roman emperor from 610 to 641.
No, he didn't. That story about Heraclius wanting to convert to Islam is, IIRC, only attested centuries after the event supposedly took place, and only from Muslim sources. I never heard of an earliest attestation of the story being written about though.
Heraclius (born c. 575, Cappadocia—died Feb. 11, 641, Constantinople) was an Eastern Roman emperor (610–641) who reorganized and strengthened the imperial administration and the imperial armies but who, nevertheless, lost Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Byzantine Mesopotamia to the Arab Muslims.
There is no evidence that Heraclius converted or even considered conversion. Muslims therefore did not exist within Roman governance. Islam only arrived in former Roman territories following the early Islamic conquests of Syria, Egypt, and North Africa.
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Which Roman emperor killed Jesus?
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