{"slug": "romanos-iii-argyros", "label": "Romanos III Argyros", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_III_Argyros", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41657", "qid": "Q41657", "description": "Byzantine emperor", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [968, 1056], "span_label": ["968 CE", "1056 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "zoe-porphyrogenita", "label": "Zoë Porphyrogenita", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "chamberlain-office", "label": "Chamberlain (office)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-italy-holy-roman-empire", "label": "Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "calabria", "label": "Calabria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "antioch", "label": "Antioch", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aleppo", "label": "Aleppo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bedouin", "label": "Bedouin", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 968, "year_label": "968 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Romanos III Argyros, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1034)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364919231#Births", "title": "968", "revid": 1364919231, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1028, "year_label": "1028 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 11", "text": "November 11 – Emperor Constantine VIII dies at Constantinople after a 3-year reign. On his deathbed, and without a male heir, Constantine arranges that his eldest daughter, Zoë Porphyrogenita, succeeds him and marries the Byzantine nobleman, Romanos III (Argyros).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363299472#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1028", "revid": 1363299472, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1030, "year_label": "1030 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Romanos III Argyros decides to retaliate upon the incursions of the Muslims on the eastern frontier. He leads a Byzantine expeditionary force (20,000 men) to secure Antioch. The Mirdasid emir Shibl al-Dawla Nasr of Aleppo sues for peace, but Romanos refuses to negotiate and leads his army against Aleppo, against the advice of his generals. The Byzantine army encamped near Azaz, where they were encircled by the Mirdasids' Bedouin troops, who cut off the Byzantines from food and water.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365590959#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1030", "revid": 1365590959, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1032, "year_label": "1032 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Emperor Romanos III (Argyros) sends a Byzantine expeditionary army under General Michael Protospatharios, which includes Western auxiliaries and elite troops of Asia Minor, to reinforce the Byzantine position in Calabria (Southern Italy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342215247#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1032", "revid": 1342215247, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1034, "year_label": "1034 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – Emperor Romanos III (Argyros) is drowned in his bath, at the urging of his wife Zoë, who marries her chamberlain, and elevates him to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, as Michael IV. Romanos is buried in the Church of St. Mary Peribleptos in Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342215274#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1034", "revid": 1342215274, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1034, "year_label": "1034 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – Romanos III (Argyros), Byzantine emperor (b. 968)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342215274#Deaths", "title": "1034", "revid": 1342215274, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1056, "year_label": "1056 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 31", "text": "August 31 – Empress Theodora (a sister of the former Empress Zoë) dies after a 18-month reign, by a sudden illness at Constantinople. She is succeeded by Michael VI Bringas (\"the Old\"), who had served as military finance minister under the former Emperor Romanos III. Michael is appointed through the influence of Leo Paraspondylos, Theodora's most trusted adviser. This ends the Macedonian dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365382431#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1056", "revid": 1365382431, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}