Romanos IV Diogenes, Emperor of Byzantium

Abt 1022 - 1072  (~ 50 years)

• Name	Romanos IV Diogenes
  Suffix	Emperor of Byzantium
  Birth	Abt 1022
  Gender	Male
  Death	1072  [1]
  Person ID	I21270	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2017

  
  

  Father	Gen. Konstantinos Diogenes,   b. Abt 990   d. 1032 (Age ~ 42 years)
  Mother	(Unknown daughter of Basil Argyros)
  Family ID	F13119	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	(Unknown daughter of Alusian of Bulgaria)   d. Bef 1065
  Children	+ 1. Konstantinos Diogenes,   b. Abt 1050   d. 1074, Antioch, Anatolia (Age ~ 24 years)
  Family ID	F13118	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2017

  
  

• Notes

  From Wikipedia: Romanos IV Diogenes, also known as Romanus IV, was a member of the Byzantine military aristocracy who, after his marriage to the widowed empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa, was crowned Byzantine emperor and reigned from 1068 to 1071. During his reign he was determined to halt the decline of the Byzantine military and to stop Turkish incursions into the Byzantine Empire, but in 1071 he was captured and his army routed at the Battle of Manzikert. While still captive he was overthrown in a palace coup, and when released he was quickly defeated and detained by members of the Doukas family. In 1072, he was blinded and sent to a monastery, where he died of his wounds.

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.