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ROMANUS IV

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

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Bury's edition of See also:Gibbon's Decline and Fall. (M. O. B.

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