Constantine Diogenes (son of Romanos IV)
Constantine Diogenes (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Διογένης; died 1073) was one of the sons of Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes (reigned 1068–1071).
He was a son of Romanos with his unnamed first wife, a daughter of Alusian of Bulgaria,[1][2] and hence excluded from the line of succession when his father married the empress-dowager Eudokia Makrembolitissa in 1068.[1] He was named after his grandfather, general Constantine Diogenes (died 1032).
He was married to Theodora Komnene, sister of the later emperor Alexios I Komnenos (reigned 1081–1118), some time during his father's reign.[3] Their daughter Anna Diogenissa became the consort of Serbia after her marriage to Uroš I of Serbia.
Constantine fell in battle in 1073.[4] An adventurer pretended to be him in the 1090s, and invaded the Byzantine Empire with Cuman help in 1095.[5][6]
References
- 1 2 Neville 2012, p. 77.
- ↑ Cheynet 1996, p. 276.
- ↑ Neville 2012, pp. 77, 106.
- ↑ Finlay, George (1854). History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from 716 to 1453. William Blackwood and Sons. pp. 55,74.
- ↑ Cheynet 1996, pp. 99–100.
- ↑ Skoulatos 1980, pp. 75–177.
Sources
- Cheynet, Jean-Claude (1996). Pouvoir et Contestations à Byzance (963–1210) (in French). Paris, France: Publications de la Sorbonne. ISBN 978-2-85944-168-5.
- Neville, Leonora, ed. (2012). Heroes and Romans in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107009455.
- Skoulatos, Basile (1980). Les Personnages Byzantins de I'Alexiade: Analyse Prosopographique et Synthese (in French). Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Nauwelaerts.