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Personal data Romanos III Argyros 

• He was born in the year 968.
• (Geschiedenis) .

  Romanos III Argyros (1028-1034): Son of the above Argyropoulos: he served as political official and in 1028, while he was prefect of
  Constantinople, Constantine VII appointed him his successor. Romanos married Zoe Porphrogennete and ascended the throne. He
  died childless on April 11, 1034.

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  Romanos III Argyros (or Romanus III Argyrus) (Greek: ??µa??? G? ???????, Romanos III Argyros) (968 – 11 April 1034) was Byzantine emperor from 15 November 1028 until his death.
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  Biography
  Golden nomisma histamenon of Romanos III, with Christ seated.
  
  Romanos Argyros was the son of an unnamed member of the Argyros family and a great-grandson of Emperor Romanos I. His sister Maria had married Giovanni Orseolo, a Venetian lord in Dalmatia. He also had a brother, Basil Argyros. Under Basil II Romanos served as judge, and under Constantine VIII he became urban prefect of Constantinople. Romanos attracted the attention of Constantine VIII, who forced him to divorce his wife (sending her into a monastery) and to marry the emperor's daughter Zoe. The marriage took place on November 12, 1028, and three days later Constantine VIII died, leaving Romanos III as emperor.
  
  The new emperor showed great eagerness to make his mark as a ruler, but was mostly unfortunate in his enterprises. He spent large sums upon new buildings and in endowing the monks, and in his endeavour to relieve the pressure of taxation disorganized the finances of the state. Idealizing Marcus Aurelius, Romanos aspired to be a new "philosopher king", and similarly desired to imitate the military prowess of Trajan.
  The alleged murder of Romanos III Argyros in a bath, from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes.
  
  In 1030 he resolved to retaliate upon the incursions of the Muslims on the eastern frontier by leading a large army in person against the Mirdasids of Aleppo, but by allowing himself to be surprised on the march sustained a serious defeat at Azaz, near Antioch. Though this disaster was reduced by the capture and successful defence of Edessa by George Maniakes in 1032 and by the sound defeat of a Saracen fleet in the Adriatic, Romanos never recovered his early popularity.
  
  As a member of the aristocracy, Romanos III abandoned his predecessors' curtailment of the privileges of the nobility and reduced their taxes, at the same time allowing peasant freeholders to fall into a condition of serfdom. In a vain attempt to reduce expenditure, Romanos limited his wife's expenses, which merely exacerbated the alienation between the two.
  
  At home Romanos III faced several conspiracies, mostly centered around his sister-in-law Theodora, as in 1029 and 1030. Although he survived these attempts on the throne, his early death in 1034 was supposed to have been due to poison administered by his wife, though it has also been alleged that he was drowned in a bath on his wife's orders. He was buried in the Church of St. Mary Peribleptos, which he built.
  Family
  
  By his first wife Helena, Romanos III Argyros had a daughter, who was engaged to Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor. He had no children by his second wife Zoe.

• He died on April 11, 1034, he was 66 years old.
• A child of NN Argyropoulos
• This information was last updated on April 10, 2013.

Household of Romanos III Argyros

(1) He is married to Zoe van Byzantium.

They got marriedSource 2

(2) He is married to Helena.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. NN Argyros  

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