Michael VII Doukas
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Michael VII Doukas or Ducas, nicknamed Parapinakes, was the senior Byzantine emperor from 1071 to 1078. He was known as incompetent as an emperor and reliant on court officials, especially of his fina
Miliaresion of Michael VII Doukas
Miniature of Michael VII alongside Constantine X and Eudokia, c. 1060
Michael VII and Maria of Alania on the Khakhuli triptych, c. 1072.
Michael VII Doukas on the back of the Holy Crown of Hungary, c. 1074.
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
Michael VII Doukas
…down as emperor in 1078 and later retired to a monastery. Michael VII was born c. 1050 in Constantinople, the eldest son of Constantine X Doukas and Eudokia Makrembolitissa. He was probably associated with the throne by the end of 1060, together with or shortly before his newly born brother Konstantios Doukas. When Constantine…
Contemporary miniature of empress Eudokia
Constantine X and Eudokia in a reliquary of Demetrius of Thessaloniki, by John Autoreianos.
Coin of Eudokia, Michael VII and Konstantios, 1067.