Romanos IV Diogenes
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The Byzantine emperor who marched east to stop Turkish raiders and came back in chains. His capture at Manzikert in 1071 cracked open Anatolia to centuries of Turkification and marked the beginning of the end for Byzantine military power in the heartland.
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About this person
Son of a general and born into Cappadocia's Greek military elite around 1030, Romanos made his name as a frontier commander fighting along the Syrian and Danube borders. He became emperor in 1068 by marrying the dowager empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa, inheriting an army hollowed by neglect and a state bleeding territory to Seljuk incursions. His early campaigns against the Turks brought limited gains and his domestic policies sparked clashes with the powerful Doukas family. In 1071 he led a major expedition against Alp Arslan's forces, but poor tactics and years of military decay caught up with him at Manzikert - the Byzantines were routed and Romanos taken prisoner. While he was captive the Doukai seized the throne in a palace coup, declaring Michael VII emperor. Released, he tried to fight back but was defeated in Cilicia and forced to surrender on a promise of mercy. They blinded him anyway and sent him to a monastery on Prote, where he died of the wounds on 4 August 1072.
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