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ROMANUS II

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 583 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
ROMANUS II . succeeded his father
Constantine
  VII. in 959 at the age of twenty-one, and diedpoisoned, it was believed, by his wife, Theophano-in 963. He was a pleasure-loving sovereign, but showed judgment in the selection of his ministers. The
great
  event of his reign was the conquest of
Crete
  by Nicephorus Phocas.
RoMAxus III. (Argyrus), emperor 1028-1034, was an undistinguished Byzantine patrician, who was compelled by the dying emperor
Constantine
  IX. to marry his daughter Zoe and to become his successor. He showed
great
  eagerness to make his mark as a ruler, but was mostly unfortunate in his enterprises. He spent large sums upon new buildings and in endowing the monks, and in his endeavour to relieve the pressure of
taxation
  disorganized the finances of the state. In 1030 he resolved to retaliate upon the incursions. of the Moslems on the eastern frontier by leading a large army in person against Aleppo, but by allowing himself to be surprised on the
march
  sustained a serious defeat at Azaz near Antioch. Though this disaster was retrieved by the successful defence of Edessa by George Maniakes and by the defeat of a Saracen
fleet
  in the Adriatic, Romanus never recovered his popularity. His early death was supposed to have been due to poison administered by his wife.
See J. B. Bury in the English Historical
Review
  (1889), pp. 53-57; G. Schlumberger, L'Epopee byzantine (Paris, 1905), iii. pp. 56-158.


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