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	Constantine VII
		Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus ("the Purple-born") was the son of Byzantine emperor Leo VI and nephew of Alexander III.
		In 949 Constantine launched another invasion of Crete, but like his father's attempt to retake the island in 911, this attempt also failed.
		Constantine died in 959 and was succeeded by his son Romanus II.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Constantine_VII.html (284 words)

	Constantine VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos ("the Purple-born") (Constantinople, 905 – Constantinople, November 9, 959) was the son of Byzantine emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife Zoe Karvounopsina.
		Constantine succeeded to the throne at the age of seven in 913, under the regency of the Patriarch Nicholas Mysticus.
		Constantine's youth had been a sad one for his unpleasant appearance, his taciturn nature and his relegation at the third level of succession behind the two sons of Romanus Lecapenus.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 840 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Constantine succeeded his father in 911, and reigned under the guardianship of his paternal uncle, Alexander, who was already Augustus, governed the empire as an absolute monarch, and died in the following year, 912.
		Constantine's end was hastened by poison, administered to him by an ungrateful son, Romanus (his successor), in consequence of which he died on the 15th of November, A. i>.
		Macedo, the grandfather of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, a work of great importance for the reign and character of that great emperor, although it contains many things which cannot be relied upon, as Constantine was rather credulous, and embellished the truth from motives of filial piety or vanity.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0849.html (955 words)

	CHAPTER - FATE OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE
		We open with curiosity and respect the royal volumes of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, which he composed at a mature age for the instruction of his son, and which promise to unfold the state of the eastern empire, both in peace and war, both at home and abroad.
		In the time of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, they had acquired the name of Mainotes, under which they dishonor the claim of liberty by the inhuman pillage of all that is shipwrecked on their rocky shores.
		The primitive edifice of the first Constantine was a copy, or rival, of ancient Rome; the gradual improvements of his successors aspired to emulate the wonders of the old world, and in the tenth century, the Byzantine palace excited the admiration, at least of the Latins, by an unquestionable preeminence of strength, size, and magnificence.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Constantine,
		Constantine V (Constantine Copronymus), 718-75, Byzantine emperor (741-75), son and successor of Leo III.
		Constantine VII (Constantine Porphyrogenitus), 905-59, Byzantine emperor (913-59).
		Constantine II 316-40, Roman emperor, son of Constantine I. When the empire was divided at the death (337) of Constantine I, among the brothers Constantius II, Constans I, and Constantine II, Constantine II received Britain, Gaul, and Spain.
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	Constantine VII - LoveToKnow 1911
		Though nominally emperor from 912-959, it was not until 945 that Constantine could really be called sole ruler.
		Though wanting in strength of will, Constantine possessed intelligence and many other good qualities, and his reign on the whole was not unsatisfactory.
		Constantine was a painter and a patron of art, a literary man and a patron of literature; and herein consists his real importance, since it is to works written by or directly inspired by him that we are indebted for our chief knowledge of his times.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Constantine_VII (518 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 757 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The continuation, in its present form, comes down to the second year of Romanus, son and successor of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, and probably reached, or was designed to reach, to a later period, for it is imperfect, and breaks off abruptly.
		and Alexander, the sons of Basil, and of Constantine Porphyrogenitus and the commencement of the reign of Romanus II., by an unknown later hand.
		The life of Basil, by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, was printed separately as early as 1653, in the ^v/h/jukto, of Allatius, 8vo.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1865.html (890 words)

	Macedonian Dynasty - The Macedonian Epoch (867-1081)
		Leo's son, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913-59), remained indifferent to affairs of state and devoted all his time to literary work in the midst of the most learned men of his time.
		After the death of Constantine VIII the aged senator, Romanus Argyrus, married to Constantine's daughter, Zoe, became emperor and ruled from 1028 until 1034.
		Zoe survived him, and at the age of about fifty-six married her lover, Michael the Paphlagonian, who was proclaimed emperor at his wife's entreaty, and ruled as Michael IV the Paphlagonian from 1034 to 1041.
	www.historyofmacedonia.org /RomanMacedonia/MacedonianDynasty.htm (1120 words)

	Constantine VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos or Porphyrogenitus, "the Purple-born" (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Ζ΄ Πορφυρογέννητος, Kōnstantinos VII Porphyrogennētos), (Constantinople, 905 – November 9, 959 in Constantinople) was the son of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife Zoe Karbonopsina.
		Nevertheless, he was a very intelligent young man with a large range of interests, and dedicated those years to study the court's ceremonial.
		Having never exercised executive authority, Constantine remained primarily devoted to his scholarly pursuits and relegated his authority to bureaucrats and generals, as well as his energetic wife Helena Lekapene.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constantine_Porphyrogenitus (827 words)

	Constantine VIII - LoveToKnow 1911
		This title is given by Gibbon to the son of Romanus I.
		Lecapenus, one of the colleagues of Constantine VII.
		Porphyrogenitus, but it is now generally bestowed upon Constantine, the brother and colleague of Basil II.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Constantine_VIII (98 words)

	DECLINE & FALL
		We open with curiosity and respect the royal volumes of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, (1) which he composed at a mature age for the instruction of his son, and which promise to unfold the state of the eastern empire, both in peace and war, both at home and abroad.
		The princes of the North, of the nations, says Constantine, without faith or fame, were ambitious of mingling their blood with the blood of the Caesars, by their marriage with a royal virgin, or by the nuptials of their daughters with a Roman prince.
		Constantine, the great and holy, esteemed the fidelity and valor of the Franks; (61) and his prophetic spirit beheld the vision of their future greatness.
	matrix.csustan.edu /XLib/History/Decline/volume2/chap53.htm (11652 words)

	Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, b 17/18 May 905, d 9 Nov 959.
		During Constantine's reign there was strong interaction between the Kyivan and Byzantine states; for example,
		The works written by Constantine (De administrando imperio) or edited by him (De thematibus, De ceremonis) contain much material on the history and geography of
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/C/O/ConstantineVIIPorphyrogenitus.htm (65 words)

	Constantine Porphyrogenitus De Administrando Imperio (Dumbarton Oaks Texts)
		Constantine, on the other hand, perhaps preferring the lighter touch with his legacy, simply allows the reader to draw thier own conclusions about the anecdotes.
		The author, the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, ruled the most powerful European polity of the period and intended the treatise to be a guidebook for his son in dealing with the empire's neighbours.
		For instance, Constantine's recommendations on how to deal with different types of enemies extends to allies and friendly neighbours, should they be deemed enemies or dangerous at some point in the future.
	www.freehosttalk.com /ebooks/isbn0884020215.html (850 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.11
		He concludes that when Constantine Porphyrogenitus was looking for a model of an imperial coronation, he found no established ceremonial but only some elements of ritual organised by each emperor "into a more or less theatrical ceremonial" (p.
		Dagron describes this process of legitimisation as a long road for the emperor, who won his appointment on the battlefield, and a short one for the son, who was legitimised by his birth, by virtue of being a porphyrogenitus.
		Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the grandson of the founder of the Macedonian dynasty, defined what was right ceremony in his Book of Ceremonies.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-09-11.html (2094 words)

	Constantine VII - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		A regency (913-20) was followed by the rule (920-44) of the usurper Romanus I.
		In 945, Constantine expelled the sons of Romanus and began his personal rule.
		His main interests lay in legal reforms, in the fair redistribution of land among the peasants, and in the encouragement of art and learning.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Constnt7Byz.html (267 words)

	De Cerimoniis, Diplomatic Stylesheet
		Constantine and Romanos, whose faith is God, Emperors of the Romans, to [Name] Exousiastes [sic] of Alania, our spiritual son (pneumatikon teknon).
		"Constantine and Romanos, whose faith is in Christ the Lord, Autocrats, Augusti and Great Emperors of the Romans to the most esteemed (endoxatatos) and most noble (eugenestatos) Exousiastes of the Muslims." A two-solidus gold bull.
		Constantine and Romanos, Emperors of the Romans, whose faith is in God, to our desired spiritual son (pneumatikon teknon), the God-appointed Prince (archon) of the most Christian people (ethnos) of the Bulgarians." The recent formulation.
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	TOPONYMY AND ETHNIC REALITIES AT THE LOWER DANUBE
		In addition, we should not surpass the possibility of some inaccuracies in their placement, because of either the informer or the way in which the information was interpreted by the cabinet savant Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who was never passing in the described region.
		This larger interpretation of the text referring to the cities' placement is also imposed by the fact that the Roman domination in the region, whether it did exist, did not penetrate in the depth of the Northern Pontic territory, the empire confining to control the sea's shore.
		Constantine Porphyrogenitus presents them as Salma-Saca-Gieou and not from the upstream to the river's mouth, Saca-Giaiou-Salma, as it was natural.
	www.geocities.com /serban_marin/brezeanu2002.html (10886 words)

	Constantine VII - Byzantine Coinage - WildWinds.com
		Constantine VII & Zoe AE Follis of Constantinople.
		Constantine VII AE (uncertain denomination) of Cherson Mint.
		Constantine VII and Romanus I AE (uncertain denomination) of Cherson.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/byz/constantine_VII/i.html (413 words)

	Xena Is Born To the Purple, Also To the White and the Gold
		Constantine Porphyrogenitus or Constantine VII (904-959 CE) during the Byzantine period; and
		Toynbee observes that "Constantine VII was not a porphyrogenitus (i.e.
		Individuals, Constantine or others, might be born "in the purple" (the purple chamber), "to the purple" (of royal or exalted birth and destined to live in the public eye), or "raised to the purple" (such as today's Briton who is elevated to a peerage).
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	(145) Constantine VII and Romanus II
		Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus spent more than thirty years on the throne before he was able to take power from his regents in A.D. 945; shortly afterward he made his son, Romanus II, co-emperor.
		Like his father, Leo VI, Constantine was a scholar, and he is best known not for his political or military exploits but for his encyclopedic scholarship and patronage of intellectual pursuits.
		Constantine and Romanus appear in the conventional imperial portrait on the reverse, with Constantine designated senior emperor by his position on the left, by his more elaborate dress, and by his slightly larger scale.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/145.html (244 words)

	Projekat Rastko Cetinje - Petar Vlahovic: The Serbian Origin of the Montenegrins
		Even the learned emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913-959) of Byzantium and his intellectual circle heard about the Serbs who had been brought from their homeland "White Serbia" by one of the sons of the ruler of the "unbaptised Serbs" in the time of Emperor Heraclius (610-640).
		According to Porphyrogenitus, in the mid 10th century, they settled in the regions which were said to be Serbian and which extended from the Cetina river to the Ibar river and the Bay of Kotor.
		The territory of the Serbian ethnic area was delimited as quoted in the heralds by Constantine Porphyrogenitus from the mid 10th century and in the reports of the Duklja Chronicle from the 12th century.
	www.rastko.org.yu /rastko-cg/povijest/vlahovic.html (3812 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR Theophano, wife of Romanus II and Nicephorus Phocas
		She was lucky enough in her teens to be selected to marry Romanus II, the only son and youngest child of Constantine VII, who had finally been born in 939 in the wake of five sisters (Zoe, Anna, Agatha, Theophano and Theodora).
		Maria of Amnia, the bride of Constantine VI, son of the empress Irene, was said to have been selected in a bride-show, but arguably by Irene rather than by Constantine.
		Constantine was presumably married (at the age of fifteen) after his mother's return in 976, as his eldest daughter Eudocia was born in 976/77, and his second, Zoe, c.
	www.roman-emperors.org /theophano.htm (7734 words)

	SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON BLACK SEA ANTIQUITIESLocal Populations of the Black Sea Littoral and their Relations ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The De Administrando Imperio of Constantine Porphyrogenitus is still very important to draw a complete view of the political conditions of the tribes of the Caucasus and Steppes.
		Constantine Porphyrogenitus advised his son, Romanus II, to make alliances with the Petchenegs who had enough power to defeat or destroy most of the other tribes such as the Turkoí, the Rôs, etc.
		Constantine VII also provides us with useful information on the early settlement of the Magyars around the northern area of the Pontus and their new one in the west.
	www.bilkent.edu.tr /~arkeo/blacksea/session5.htm (2613 words)

	Palace of Porphyrogenitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The so-called Palace of Constantine Porphyrogenitus (Turkish: Tekfur Sarayı, "Palace of the Emperor") is a 13th century Byzantine palace in the north-western part of the old city of Constantinople.
		Located at the point where the Theodosian Walls meet with the later walls of the suburb of Blachernae, it was built during the late 12th or early 13th centuries as part of the palace complex of Blachernae.
		The palace appears at first glance to be named after Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, the 10th Century emperor, but it was built long after his time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tekfur_Palace (293 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Anastasia (wife of Constantine IV)
		Nothing is known of the antecedents of Anastasia, wife of Constantine IV (668-685).
		A presumably apocryphal tradition, recorded by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, states that she gave birth to Justinian on the island of Cyprus.
		When Constantine died in 685, at the age of only 35 years, he was survived by Anastasia and their sons Justinian, then 17 years of age, and Heraclius.
	www.roman-emperors.org /anastii.htm (551 words)

	Constantine VII - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Constantine VII - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Constantine VII, called Constantine Porphyrogenitus (905-959), Byzantine emperor (913-959).
		Palaeologus, family that ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1261 until it fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Constantine_VII.html (90 words)

	CoinArchives.com Search Results
		Crowned facing busts of Constantine, beardless and wearing loros, and Zoe, draped, each wearing crown topped with cross, holding patriarchal cross between them; Zoe’s crown with...
		BYZANZ Objekt-Nr.: 2601 Constantin VII., 913 - 959 n.
		BYZANZ Objekt-Nr.: 2359 Constantin VII., 913 - 959 n.Chr.
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