Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (‹See Tfd›Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Πορφυρογέννητος, Kōnstantinos Porphyrogennētos; 17 May 905 – 9 November 959) was the fourth...
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Porphyrogénnetos), although the epithet is almost exclusively used for Constantine VII. Sources do not agree on the exact date of his death. Brand & Cutler...
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and later retired to a monastery. Michael VII was born c. 1050 in Constantinople, the eldest son of Constantine X Doukas and Eudokia Makrembolitissa. He...
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son Constantine. Upon the death of his brother Leo on 11 May 912, Alexander succeeded as senior emperor alongside Leo's young son Constantine VII. He...
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mother is named by Constantine VII as "Pankalo". The name of his father was not recorded, but the names Symbatios (Smbat) and Constantine have been suggested;...
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November and Constantine X was crowned emperor on the following day. The new emperor quickly associated two of his young sons in power, Michael VII Doukas and...
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Constantine I (Latin: Flavius Valerius Constantinus; 27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306...
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the rank of patrikios and who stood in as godfather to Leo's son, Constantine VII. His attempts to control the great aristocratic families (e.g., the...
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Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos or Dragaš Palaeologus (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Δραγάσης Παλαιολόγος, Kōnstantînos Dragásēs Palaiológos; 8 February 1404 –...
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Heraclius Constantine ("Constantine III"), who had in turn a son also named Heraclius Constantine ("Constans II"). The emperor Constantine VII (r. 945–959)...
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Constantine VII as sole emperor upon the latter's death in 959. Basil's father crowned him as co-emperor on 22 April 960, and his brother Constantine...
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Constantine V Constantine VI Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus Constantine VIII Constantine IX Monomachos Constantine X Doukas Constantine XI Palaiologos Tiberius...
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Constantine (‹See Tfd›Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος, translit. Kōnstantīnos; born between 855 and c. 865, died 3 September 879) was a junior Byzantine emperor,...
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son, John II Komnenos. Constantine died in c. 1095. Constantine Doukas was born in about 1074 to Byzantine Emperor Michael VII and his wife Maria of Alania...
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Romanos I Lekapenos (category Constantine VII)
deposition in 944, serving as regent for and senior co-ruler of the young Constantine VII. Romanos, born in Lakape (later Laqabin) between Melitene and Samosata...
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marriage—Zoe Karbonopsina, who took over as regent for their son, Constantine VII, in 914 and ruled the empire until 919 Alexander (Αλέξανδρος) (870–913...
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Constantine II (Latin: Flavius Claudius Constantinus; 316 – 340) was Roman emperor from 337 to 340. The son of the emperor Constantine I, he was proclaimed...
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Walled Obelisk (redirect from The Constantine Obelisk)
is sometimes named Constantine's Obelisk (Konstantin Dikilitaşı) after the inscription added by the Roman emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, who...
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De Administrando Imperio (category Constantine VII)
10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII. It is a domestic and foreign policy manual for the use of Constantine's son and successor, the Emperor...
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Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, to visit Emperor Constantine VII. There are three primary sources about this event: a prescriptive account...
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Romanos II (category Constantine VII)
963) was Byzantine Emperor from 959 to 963. He succeeded his father Constantine VII at the age of twenty-one and died suddenly and mysteriously four years...
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Constantine IX Monomachos (Medieval Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Μονομάχος, romanized: Kōnstantinos Monomachos; c. 980/c. 1000 – 11 January 1055) reigned as Byzantine...
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empress as the second wife of John I Tzimiskes. She was a daughter of Constantine VII and Helena Lekapene. Her maternal grandparents were Romanos I Lekapenos...
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Pecheneg tribe Βορο-ταλμάτ < *Boru-Tolmaç mentioned by Byzantine emperor Constantine VII). In an 11th-century Arabic translation of Josippon by a Yemenite Jew:...
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They are mentioned by the Bavarian Geographer (9th century), Emperor Constantine VII (956–959), the Khazar ruler Joseph (c. 955), and in the Primary Chronicle...
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311. Lygo 2022, p. 98. Kazhdan, Alexander; Cutler, Anthony (1991). "Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary...
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Tiberius II Constantine (Latin: Tiberius Cōnstantīnus; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Τιβέριος Κωνσταντῖνος, translit. Tibérios Kōnstantĩnos; died 14 August 582) was...
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"provinces" or clans were collectively known as Kangars. According to Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the Kangars received this denomination because "they...
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overthrown and exiled by the legitimate emperor Constantine VII (r. 913–959) a few weeks later. Constantine Lekapenos was exiled to the island of Samothrace...
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Baptiste Louis (1814). The History of the Roman Emperors From Augustus to Constantine, Volume 8. F. C. & J. Rivington. p. 238. Varner, Eric (2004). Mutilation...
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