Constantine X Doukas
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Constantine X Doukas or Ducas, was Byzantine emperor from 1059 to 1067. He was the founder of the Doukid dynasty. During his reign, the Normans took over much of the remaining Byzantine territories in
Contemporary miniature of Constantine X, previously thought to be Alexios I
Constantine X and Eudokia Makrembolitissa in a reliquary of Demetrius of Thessaloniki.
Eudokia Makrembolitissa
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Eudokia Makrembolitissa was a Byzantine empress by her successive marriages to Constantine X Doukas and Romanos IV Diogenes. She acted as ruler with her two sons in 1067, and resigned her rule by marr
Constantine X Doukas
…years". He was an academic, addicted to endless debates about philosophy and theology, and he gained influence after he married, as his second wife, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, a niece of Patriarch Michael Keroularios. In 1057, Constantine supported the usurpation of Isaac I Komnenos, gradually siding with the court bureaucracy…
Contemporary miniature of empress Eudokia
Coin of Eudokia, Michael VII and Konstantios, 1067.
Miniature of Constantine X and Eudokia alongside their son and co-emperor Michael VII Doukas.