Idealized portrait of a young Romanos II (aged 7–11), from the Romanos Ivory, AD 945–949
Byzantine emperor
Reign
9 November 959 – 15 March 963
Coronation
6 April 945 as co-emperor
Predecessor
Constantine VII
Successor
Nikephoros II
Co-emperors
Constantine VII (945–959) Basil II (960–963) Constantine VIII (962–963)
Born
938
Died
15 March 963 (aged 24–25)
Spouse
Bertha-Eudokia of Arles Theophano
Issue
Helena Basil II Constantine VIII Anna Porphyrogenita
Dynasty
Macedonian
Father
Constantine VII
Mother
Helena Lekapene
Romanos II (Greek: Ῥωμανός, romanized: Rōmanos; 938 – 15 March 963) was Byzantine Emperor from 959 to 963. He succeeded his father Constantine VII at the age of twenty-one and died suddenly and mysteriously four years later. His wife Theophano helped their sons Basil II and Constantine VIII to ultimately succeed him in 976.
Romanos II, 945–959. The Romanos Ivory, 945–949. Depiction of a young RomanosII on a Ivory plaque, c. 945–959. Solidus of RomanosII as sole ruler, 959–963...
of Emperor Romanos I–Basil's great-grandfather. Lekapenos himself had been parakoimomenos to Constantine VII and megas baioulos to RomanosII. Yet another...
Romanos I Lakapenos or Lekapenos (Greek: Ῥωμανός Λακαπήνος or Λεκαπηνός, Rōmanos Lakapēnos or Lekapēnos; c. 870 – 15 June 948), Latinized as Romanus I...
achieving her goals. Romanos had already crowned as co-emperors his two sons Basil II and Constantine VIII. At the time that Romanos died, however, Basil...
Romanos IV Diogenes (Greek: Ῥωμανός Διογένης, romanized: Rōmanos Diogenēs; c. 1030 – c. 1072) was a Byzantine general and Akritai commander who, after...
no sons and was instead succeeded by Romanos Argyros, husband of his daughter Zoe. Constantine's father, RomanosII, was the sixth Byzantine emperor of...
honour of RomanosII in 950. Romanos' father, Marianos, was the son of another Romanos Argyros, who had married Agatha, a daughter of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos...
unclear whether it was Romanos Lekapenos who appointed him to the post or whether Constantine VII gave it to him after Romanos' downfall. The contemporary...
poet and saint Romanos I Lekapenos (870–948), Byzantine Emperor from 920 to 944 RomanosII (938–963), Byzantine Emperor from 959–963) Romanos III Argyros...
[my] own son Romanos"). It is a domestic and foreign policy manual for the use of Constantine's son and successor, the Emperor RomanosII. It is a prominent...
married to Romanos Argyros. They took the throne the next day on her father's death. The marriage of Zoe and Romanos III was troubled, and Romanos was found...
replaced as regent by the admiral Romanos Lekapenos, who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine. Romanos used his position to advance to the...
Porphyrogennetos (905–959), married Helena Lekapene, daughter of Romanos I Lekapenos RomanosII (938–963) married to Bertha, daughter of Hugh of Italy king...
from power. The new effective regent was Romanos Lekapenos, Droungarios (admiral) of the Byzantine navy. Romanos orchestrated the marriage of Helena to...
Schreiner, p. 121–128. ODB, pp. 1806–1807; Treadgold 1997, pp. 495–497; PmbZ, RomanosII (#26834). ODB, pp. 1478–1479. ODB, p. 1045. ODB, pp. 261–262; Grierson...
legitimize Romanos IV as emperor. Contemporary scholarship on this piece asserts that this work represents the coronation of junior emperor RomanosII and his...
the daughter of Byzantine emperor RomanosII and the Empress Theophano. She was also the sister of Emperors Basil II and Constantine VIII. Anna was a Porphyrogenita...
Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944), and co-emperor from 924 to 945. With his younger brother Constantine, he deposed Romanos I in December...
Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944), and co-emperor from 924 to 945. With his elder brother Stephen, he deposed Romanos I in December 944...
Romanos was drowned on Michael's orders. Matthew of Edessa's account has Zoë poisoning Romanos. Zoë and Michael were married on the day that Romanos III...
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official in the reigns of Emperor Constantine VII (r. 945–959) and Emperor RomanosII (r. 959–963), serving as chief minister and effective regent during the...
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