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ROMANUS IV

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 584 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
ROMANUS IV . (
Diogenes
 ), emperor 1068-1071, was a member of a distinguished Cappadocian family, and had risen to distinction in the army, when he was convicted of treason against the sons of
Constantine
  X. While waiting execution he was summoned into the presence of the empress regent, Eudocia Macrembolitissa, whom he so fascinated that she granted him a free
pardon
  and shortly afterwards married him. After his
coronation
  he carried on three successful
campaigns
  against the Saracens and Seljuk Turks, whom he drove beyond the Euphrates; in a fourth he was disastrously defeated by Alp Arslan on the banks of the Araxes and taken prisoner. After releasing himself by the promise of a large
ransom
  and the conclusion of a peace, he turned his arms against the
pretender Michael VII., but was compelled after a defeat to resign the
empire
  and retire to the
island
  of Prote, where he soon died in
great
  misery. It was during this reign that, by the surrender of Bari (1071), the Byzantine
empire
  lost its last hold upon Italy.
See J. G. C. Anderson in the
Journal
  of Hellenic Studies (1897), pp. 36-39. On all the above see also J. B. Bury's edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall. (M. O. B. C.)


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