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    Romanos IV Diogenes (Greek: Ῥωμανός Διογένης, romanized: Rōmanos Diogenēs; c. 1030 – c. 1072) was Byzantine emperor from 1068 to 1071. Determined to halt...
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  • Constantine Diogenes (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Διογένης; died 1073) was one of the sons of Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes (reigned 1068–1071). He was...
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    Romanos I Lakapenos or Lekapenos or The Gentle Usurper (Greek: Ῥωμανός Λακαπηνός or Λεκαπηνός, Rōmanos Lakapēnos or Lekapēnos; c. 870 – 15 June 948), Latinized...
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  • conspiracy. He was the father of Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes. Constantine Diogenes is the first notable member of the noble Diogenes family with origins from...
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  • Constantine Diogenes Constantine Diogenes (son of Romanos IV) (died 1073) Nikephoros Diogenes (11th century), Byzantine general, son of Romanos IV "Diogenes" is...
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    honour of Romanos II in 950. Romanos' father, Marianos, was the son of another Romanos Argyros, who had married Agatha, a daughter of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos...
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  • Leo Diogenes (Greek: Λέων Διογένης, Leōn Diogenes, 1069 – 14 August 1087), styled as porphyrogenitus, was the son of Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes...
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    Romanos II (Greek: Ῥωμανός, romanized: Rōmanos; 938 – 15 March 963) was Byzantine Emperor from 959 to 963. He succeeded his father Constantine VII at the...
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  • Diogenes may also refer to: Constantine Diogenes (son of Romanos IV) (died 1073), grandson of the general Constantine Diogenes (pretender), impostor pretender...
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    mismanagement and neglect. He had no sons and was instead succeeded by Romanos Argyros, husband of his daughter Zoe. Constantine was born in 960, two years after...
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    feast day on September 3. The eldest son of Constans II and Fausta, daughter of patrician Valentinus, Constantine IV had been named a co-emperor with his...
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  • Leo Diogenes. Although his half-brother Constantine Diogenes was the eldest son, he was borne of Romanos' first wife Anne, who was the daughter of Alusian...
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    until 945 he shared the throne with Romanos Lekapenos, whose daughter Helena he married, and his sons. Constantine VII is best known for the Geoponika...
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    minister under Constantine VIII and Romanos III. Zoë was disappointed in her hopes that Michael would prove a more devoted husband than Romanos. Fearing that...
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    when she married Romanos IV Diogenes and crowned him emperor. By his first wife, a daughter of Constantine Dalassenos, Constantine X Doukas had no issue...
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    Eudokia Makrembolitissa (category Mothers of Byzantine emperors)
    empress by her successive marriages to Constantine X Doukas and Romanos IV Diogenes. She acted as regent of her minor son, Michael VII in 1067, and resigned...
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  • Anna Diogenissa (redirect from Anna Diogene)
    1081–1118).[citation needed] Her paternal grandparents were Romanos IV Diogenes (r. 1068–1071) and Anna of Bulgaria. It is not recorded when Anna married Uroš...
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    later Caesar, Romanos IV Diogenes (r. 1068–1071), Constantine's son Michael VII Doukas (r. 1071–1078), Michael's son and co-emperor Constantine Doukas, and...
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    married to Romanos Argyros. She and Romanos took the throne the next day on her father's death. Zoe's marriage to Romanos III was troubled, and Romanos was found...
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    Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944), and co-emperor from 924 to 945. With his elder brother Stephen, he deposed Romanos I in December 944...
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  • Antioch in 1073. Since the son of Romanos IV who died at Antioch was not Leo but rather Constantine Diogenes, the emperor's eldest son, scholars have traditionally...
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    Constantine I (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor...
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    Byzantine Emperor Romanos III had secured the right to undertake such a restoration in a treaty with al-Hakim's son al-Zahir, but it was Constantine who finally...
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    Komnene [Wikidata] (c. 1054 – before 1136), married the kouropalates Constantine Diogenes, son of Romanos IV Alexios Komnenos (1057–1118), the future emperor, married...
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    to Irene of Athens in 769. When Constantine V died in September 775, while campaigning against the Bulgarians, Leo IV became senior emperor. In 778 Leo...
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    enumerated as Constantine III, was one of the shortest reigning Byzantine emperors, ruling for three months in 641. He was the eldest son of Emperor Heraclius...
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    Province, Turkey). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes played an important role in undermining...
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    Constantine the Great's foundation of Constantinople as the Roman Empire's new capital in 330. Constantine was the fourth son of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos...
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    re-established. In early 409 Honorius recognised Constantine as co-emperor. Constantine in turn raised his own oldest son to co-emperor as Constans II. In 409 Gerontius...
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  • cousin of Michael VII Doukas. In 1071 Andronikos was the commander of a section of the Byzantine army in the campaign of Romanos IV Diogenes against...
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