Constantine IX Monomachos
Byzantine emperor (1000-1055)
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He married into absolute power at middle age, spent the treasury down to fumes, and permanently debased the empire's gold currency for reasons no one has pinned down. Constantine IX ruled through two civil wars and a religious rupture that split Christendom in half.
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Constantine Monomachos came from the urban aristocracy and claimed the Byzantine throne in June 1042 by marrying the sitting empress Zoë Porphyrogenita; he shared power with her and her sister Theodora. He inherited a treasury fattened by Basil II and burned through it on gifts, building projects, and a wholesale expansion of the aristocracy during a period of economic growth. Constantine tried reforms — a new office to manage civil judges, a law school, tax exemptions through an early pronoia system — but most landed weakly. He won two civil wars and beat back a Kievan Rus' raid, but the Pech…
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