15th-century portrait of Stephen, from the Mutinensis gr. 122 manuscript
Byzantine emperor
Reign
25 December 924 – 27 January 945
Co-emperors
Constantine VII (920–944)
Romanos I (920–944)
Cristopher (921–931)
Constantine (924–944)
Died
18 April 963
Spouse
Anna Gabala
Issue
Romanos
Dynasty
Lekapenos
Father
Romanos Lekapenos
Mother
Theodora
Stephen Lekapenos or Lecapenus (Greek: Στέφανος Λεκαπηνός, translit. Stéphanos Lekapenós; died 18 April 963) was the second son of the 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 944, but was overthrown and exiled by the legitimate emperor Constantine VII (r. 913–959) a few weeks later. Stephen lived out his life in exile on the island of Lesbos, where he died on Easter 963.
StephenLekapenos or Lecapenus (Greek: Στέφανος Λεκαπηνός, translit. Stéphanos Lekapenós; died 18 April 963) was the second son of the Byzantine emperor...
Christopher Lekapenos (ruled 921–931) – son of Romanos I; co-emperor StephenLekapenos (ruled 924–945) – son of Romanos I; co-emperor Constantine Lekapenos (ruled...
Christopher Lekapenos or Lecapenus (Greek: Χριστόφορος Λακαπηνός, romanized: Christóphoros Lakapenōs) was the eldest son of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944)...
the 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...
Romanos I Lakapenos or Lekapenos (Greek: Ῥωμανός Λακαπήνος or Λεκαπηνός, Rōmanos Lakapēnos or Lekapēnos; c. 870 – 15 June 948), Latinized as Romanus I...
Basil Lekapenos (Greek: Βασίλειος Λεκαπηνός, romanized: Basíleios Lekapēnós; c. 925 – c. 985), also called the Parakoimomenos (ὁ παρακοιμώμενος) or the...
son StephenLekapenos to the throne. John is first mentioned in 922, in the aftermath of a failed conspiracy against emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (reigned...
German noblewoman April 16 – William I, German nobleman April 18 – StephenLekapenos, Byzantine co-emperor August 16 – Marianos Argyros, Byzantine general...
death of the Emperor Constantine VII (959) and a poem on the death of StephenLekapenos (963). He had probably finished his chronicle by this time. Manuscript...
crowned two more of his sons as co-emperors, StephenLekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos. By 933, Stephen was married to Anna, daughter of Gabalos. No...
– Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 906) 963 – StephenLekapenos, co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire 1161 – Theobald of Bec, French-English...
Constantine VII. 19 September 961 Sophia Σοφία February 922 Wife of Christopher Lekapenos. Anna Ἄννα 933 Daughter of Gabalas and wife of StephenLekapenos....
the third level of succession, behind Christopher Lekapenos, the eldest son of Romanos I Lekapenos. Nevertheless, he was a very intelligent young man...
The first known holder was Romanos Lekapenos, the son of StephenLekapenos and grandson of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944), but Oikonomides suggested...
Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos by marrying her to one of his sons, either StephenLekapenos or Constantine Lekapenos. Liutprand of Cremona says...
July 928. He appears to have been appointed to the post by Romanos I Lekapenos after the death of Nicholas I as a stop-gap until Romanos's own son, Theophylact...
German noblewoman April 16 – William I, German nobleman April 18 – StephenLekapenos, Byzantine co-emperor August 16 – Marianos Argyros, Byzantine general...
the co-emperor StephenLekapenos, when the latter deposed his father, Emperor Romanos I, in December 944. Shortly after, however, Stephen and his brother...
Constantine VII and Helena Lekapene, the daughter of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos and his wife Theodora. The Theophanes Continuatus states that he was 21...
III of Hungary who reincorporated Croatian territories into Hungary, and Stephen Nemanja of Serbia who declared his independence from the Byzantine Empire...
powerful parakoimomenos was Basil Lekapenos, an illegitimate, eunuch son of Emperor Romanos I–Basil's great-grandfather. Lekapenos himself had been parakoimomenos...
Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944). The Argyroi therefore were counted among the firmest supporters of the Lekapenos regime. Romanos Lekapenos had risen...
their father from power in December 944. Pantherios 944 StephenLekapenos, Constantine Lekapenos Appointed in place of John Kourkouas by Romanos I's sons...
VI and Zoe Karbonopsina; married Helena, daughter of Romanos Lekapenos Romanos I Lekapenos (Ρωμανός A') (c. 870–948, ruled 920–944) – staged a successful...
Hetaireia, when he became a leading member in the plot of StephenLekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos to depose their father, the ruling senior emperor Romanos...
supporters of Constantine VII when he deposed his co-rulers, Stephen and Constantine Lekapenos, and became sole emperor in 945. Another prominent Tornikios...
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