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289. Constantine, betrothed to Helena the daughter of Robert Guiscard, but later to Anna Comnena. He probably died before she was of marriageable age.
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Eudocia 1067 part 34
280. This Crispinus had joined Romanus on his first campaign. Previously he had been in Italy. As he was not treated with the consideration...
Eudocia 1067 part 33
261. The leaders of the peace party were Psellus himself, Nicephorus Palaeologus and John Ducas.262. Spring 1069. This campaign was indecisive, though the enemy...
Eudocia 1067 part 32
This eunuch suggested to the Patriarch that his brother Bardas should marry the empress. Xiphilinus, flattered by this proposal, consulted the Senate, but did...
Eudocia 1067 part 31
234. The City Prefect and several nobles were implicated in a plot to kill the emperor on St. George’s Day (1060), but they were...
Eudocia 1067 part 30
212. The Patzinaks crossed the Danube (Ister) it 1059. The Hungarians also threatened the Romans but peace was arranged with them. The campaign against...
Eudocia 1067 part 29
200. Cf. Scylitzes (813, p. 650): ‘(Isaac) was a man of fixed habits, fair-minded, sharp-witted, strong, intelligent, a great leader in war, a terror...
Eudocia 1067 part 28
176. The Battle of Hades, not far from Nicaea, on 20 August 1057. Cedrenus describes this engagement in some detail (801-2).
177. Theodorus Alopus, a...
Eudocia 1067 part 27
166. The Comneni came originally from Comne, near Hadrianople, and had estates in the Castamon district of Asia Minor. They were destined to play...
Eudocia 1067 part 26
They tell me that you are earnestly striving to thrust me forth from my home, the palace of an emperor, and preparing to win...
