Romain III Argyre
Romain III Argyre , (968 - April 11th 1034) Byzantine emperor of 1028 with 1034, small son of Romain Argyre and his wife Agathe Lécapène, itself girl of Romain Ier Lécapène.
On its bed of death, Constantin VIII arranged the marriage of his/her daughter Zoe with a senator of Constantinople, Romain Argyre, already rather old and married (his wife had to mow herself and agree to enter a convent so that Romain, death threat, could go up on the throne).
Incompetent to fill his load, having little political and military experiment, Romain III decided to conduct a campaign in Syria in 1030. He was there lamentably demolishes and devoted himself, from now on, with the administrative tasks, in which he could not become qualified either.
He turned then to the construction of churches and made build the large church of the Virgin Peribleptos " who sees tout" , as well as an adjacent monastery. The disproportion of these two constructions ends up drawing up the people against him.
He died in the baths, perhaps of the hand of Zoe, the day of the Good Friday April 11th 1034. There remains an uncertainty on the causes of its death; as it was falls ill little before its death - possibly because of a poisoning -, it is not known if it died naturally or drowned. Zoe installed at once on the throne her lover Michel IV Paphlagonien.
| Random links: | Buchelay | Rene Lourau | Dam Afşar | Seraphinianus codex | Trametes versicolor | Topsail |