- Zoe
Karbonopsina, also
Karvounopsina or Carbonopsina, lit. 'with the Coal-Black Eyes' (Gr****: Ζωὴ Καρβωνοψίνα, romanized: Zōē
Karbōnopsina), was an empress...
- (according to the
Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos) Leo took as
mistress Zoe
Karbonopsina. He
married her only
after she had
given birth to a son in 905, but incurred...
-
November 959. He was the son of
Emperor Leo VI and his
fourth wife, Zoe
Karbonopsina, and the
nephew of his
predecessor Alexander. Most of his
reign was dominated...
- out with Leo VI over the latter's
fourth marriage to his
mistress Zoe
Karbonopsina.
Although he
reluctantly baptized the
fruit of this relationship, the...
- son of
Michael III;
created church crisis with his
fourth marriage—Zoe
Karbonopsina, who took over as
regent for
their son,
Constantine VII, in 914 and ruled...
-
reign was
dominated by
successive regencies,
first by his mother, Zoe
Karbonopsina, and
Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, and from 919 by the
admiral Romanos...
- saints,
martyrs (died 127) Zoe of Rome (died c. 286),
martyred saint Zoe
Karbonopsina (died c. 920),
Byzantine empress Zoe
Palaiologina (c. 1455–1503), wife...
-
including the
admiral Himerios, the
patriarch Euthymios, and the
empress Zoe
Karbonopsina, the
mother of
Constantine VII, whom he
locked up in a nunnery. The patriarchate...
- independence. At the end of the
Early Baghdad Abbasids period,
Empress Zoe
Karbonopsina pressed for an
armistice with Al-Muqtadir and
arranged for the ransom...
-
correctly or not,
Constantine VII also
believed that his mother, Zoe
Karbonopsina, was a
relative of the
chronicler Theophanes the Confessor, one of the...
