Ruler · 978 – 1050

Zoe Porphyrogenita

Lived 978 – 1050. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 1042 – 1055.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 978 – 1050; 72 years
In office: 13 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: natural death; Kokkonen & Sundell

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 75th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

71 before

Michael IV the Paphlagonian1034 – 1041

Michael V Kalaphates1041 – 1042

Constantine IX Monomachos1042 – 1055

Zoe Porphyrogenita1042 – 1055

Theodora Porphyrogenita1042 – 1056

Michael VI Bringas1056 – 1057

Isaac I Komnenos1057 – 1059

35 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1042 – 1055 · 13 years · came to it aged 64

Came to it: the spouse of the ruler before, on record
Left it: natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell

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