{"slug": "romanos-i-lekapenos", "label": "Romanos I Lekapenos", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_I_Lekapenos", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41646", "qid": "Q41646", "description": "Byzantine emperor from 919/920 to 944", "entries": 14, "years": 13, "span": [919, 976], "span_label": ["919 CE", "976 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "constantine-vii", "label": "Constantine VII", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "first-bulgarian-empire", "label": "First Bulgarian Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "simeon-i-of-bulgaria", "label": "Simeon I of Bulgaria", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "byzantine-navy", "label": "Byzantine navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "black-sea", "label": "Black Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "golden-horn", "label": "Golden Horn", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "abbasid-caliphate", "label": "Abbasid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "basil-ii", "label": "Basil II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "john-i-tzimiskes", "label": "John I Tzimiskes", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 919, "year_label": "919 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – Romanos Lekapenos, admiral (droungarios) of the Byzantine navy, seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople. He is named megas hetaireiarches (head of the imperial guard). Lekapenos consolidates his position and becomes regent of Emperor Constantine VII. He marries his 9-year-old daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine and assumes the new title of basileopator (one of the highest offices in the Byzantine Empire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509579#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "919", "revid": 1341509579, "section": "Events › By Place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 920, "year_label": "920 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 17", "text": "December 17 – Romanos I has himself crowned co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He shares the throne with the 15-year-old Constantine VII (his son-in-law), and constructs an alternative palace at Constantinople with an adjoining monastery near the Great Palace. Though Constantine retains his formal position as first on the protocol list, Romanos becomes sole ruler.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205100#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "920", "revid": 1349205100, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 922, "year_label": "922 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Battle of Constantinople: Emperor Romanos I sends Byzantine troops to repel another Bulgarian raid at the outskirts of Constantinople. The Byzantines storm the Bulgarian camp, but are defeated when they are confronted by the main Bulgarian forces. Having won the battle, the Bulgarians lack the maritime power to conduct a successful siege of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509630#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "922", "revid": 1341509630, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 924, "year_label": "924 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 25", "text": "December 25 – Stephen Lekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos are promoted to the position of co-Emperors of Byzantium, joining Constantine VII, Romanos I and Christopher, creating a pentarchy with five monarchs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360748864#October—December", "title": "924", "revid": 1360748864, "section": "Events › October—December"}}, {"year": 924, "year_label": "924 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 – After pillaging the suburbs of Constantinople, Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria meets with the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos on the Golden Horn to arrange a truce, according to which Byzantium will pay the Bulgarians an annual tribute in exchangefor the return of some cities on the Black Sea coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360748864#July—September", "title": "924", "revid": 1360748864, "section": "Events › July—September"}}, {"year": 925, "year_label": "925 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October", "text": "October — In Byzantium, John Mystikos, chief minister (paradynasteuon), is deposed by the Emperor Romanos I, flogged, and sent into exile in a monastery. He is replaced by the chamberlain (protovestiarios) Theophanes, who becomes the closest adviser of Emperor Romanos I. At this time the Byzantine Empire has been embroiled in a protracted and disastrous war with Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367671300#July_–_December", "title": "925", "revid": 1367671300, "section": "Events › By date › July – December"}}, {"year": 927, "year_label": "927 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 27", "text": "May 27 – Simeon I, emperor (tsar) of the Bulgarian Empire, dies of heart failure in his palace at Preslav after a 34-year reign. He is survived by four sons and succeeded by his second son Peter I, who signs a peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire. The peace is confirmed by Peter's marrying Maria Lekapene (the daughter of Christopher Lekapenos, son and co-emperor of Romanos I). The treaty restores the borders to those established by several treaties (thus recognizing Bulgaria's possession of Macedonia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341517107#Europe", "title": "927", "revid": 1341517107, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 934, "year_label": "934 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of W.l.n.d.r: The Hungarians and Pechenegs kill Constantinople's inhabitants, inflict severe damage on the countryside, and defeat both the Byzantine Empire and Bulgaria, forcing them to pay tribute. Emperor Romanos I signs a peace treaty with the Hungarians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512094#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "934", "revid": 1341512094, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 942, "year_label": "942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Fraxinet: King Hugh of Provence launches an attack on Fraxinet, the Moorish fortress on the Côté d'Azur that had taken control of the Piedmontese valleys. With the assistance of a Byzantine fleet sent by Emperor Romanos I, Hugh lays siege to the Moorish fortress with the help of Hungarian auxiliary troops (Kabars).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364918673#Europe", "title": "942", "revid": 1364918673, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 943, "year_label": "943 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Allied with the Rus', a Hungarian army raids Moesia and Thrace. Emperor Romanos I buys peace, and accepts to pay a yearly tribute (protection money) to the Hungarians. His frontiers now 'protected' on the Balkan Peninsula, Romanos sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (80,000 men) led by general John Kourkouas (his commander-in-chief) to invade northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364916983#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "943", "revid": 1364916983, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 944, "year_label": "944 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – Emperor Romanos I is arrested and deposed after a 14-year reign by his own sons, the co-emperors Stephen and Constantine. He is carried off to the Prince Islands and forced to become a monk.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512279#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "944", "revid": 1341512279, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 945, "year_label": "945 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown barely a month after deposing their father, Romanos I. With the help of his wife, Constantine VII becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He appoints to the highest army commands four members of the Phokas family, which have been in disgrace under Romanos.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365595392#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "945", "revid": 1365595392, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 948, "year_label": "948 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – Romanos I, Byzantine emperor (b. c. 870)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512591#Deaths", "title": "948", "revid": 1341512591, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 976, "year_label": "976 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 10", "text": "January 10 – Emperor John I Tzimiskes dies at Constantinople, after returning from a second campaign against the Abbasids in Syria. He is buried in the Church of Christ Chalkites, and succeeded by his 18-year-old nephew Basil II, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. The administration remains in the hands of Basil Lekapenos (an illegitimate son of the late Emperor Romanos I).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468275#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "976", "revid": 1364468275, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}