Zoe de Byzance
Zoe Porphyrogénète , born in 978, died in 1050, Byzantine empress of 1028 with 1050, girl of Constantin VIII.
She reigned with her sister Théodora with died of her father, then exiled her sister with the assistance of her husband, Romain III. Its marriage with this old man had been arranged by his father on his bed of death. It made it assassinate by a servant of Romain III, of which it had made her lover and on the throne under the name of Michel IV in 1034 made it go up.
It adopted the nephew of this one Michel the Caulker, which becomes emperor under the name of Michel V with died of his uncle.
Michel V wanted to demolish influence of Zoe and to lock up it in a convent, but that caused a popular revolt in Constantinople in 1042, because of the attachment of the people at the house Macedonian. She married Constantin IX then, and reigned with him until her death in 1050.
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