Constantine X & Eudocia 1059AD Ancien Large Byzantine Coin Christ i28891
Constantine X & Eudocia 1059AD Ancien Large Byzantine Coin Christ i28891

Constantine X & Eudocia 1059AD Ancien Large Byzantine Coin Christ i28891

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Authentic Ancient

Coin of:

Constantine X – Byzantine Emperor: 25 December 1059 – 21 May

1067 A.D. –

Bronze Follis 28mm (7.80 grams) Struck at the mint of Constantinople circa
1059-1067 A.D.
Reference: Sear 1853
┼ЄMMANOVHΛ. Christ standing facing on footstool, wearing nimbus crown, pallium
and colobium, and raising right hand in benediction; in field to left, IC; to
right, XC. –
┼KWN TΔ ЄVΔK AVΓO. Eudocia on left and Constantine, bearded on right standing
facing, holding between them labarum, with cross on shaft, resting on three
steps; each wears crown and loros.

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Constantine X Doukas or Ducas (Greek:

Κωνσταντίνος Ι΄ Δούκας, Kōnstantinos X Doukas),

(1006 – May, 1067) was emperor of the

Byzantine Empire

from 1059 to 1067.

Reign

Constantine Doukas was the son of Andronikos Doukas, a

Paphlagonian

nobleman who may have served as governor of the theme of

Moesia
.

Constantine gained influence after he married, as his second wife,

Eudokia Makrembolitissa

, the niece of Patriarch

Michael Keroularios

. In 1057, Constantine supported the usurpation of

Isaac I Komnenos

, but gradually sided with the court bureaucracy against the

new emperor’s reforms. In spite of this tacit opposition, Constantine was chosen

as successor by the ailing Isaac in November, 1059, under the influence of

Michael Psellos

. Isaac abdicated and on

November

24
, 1059
,

Constantine X Doukas was crowned emperor.

The new emperor quickly associated two of his young sons in power, appointed

his brother

John Doukas

as kaisar (Caesar)

and embarked on a policy favorable to the interests of the court bureaucracy and

the church. Severely undercutting the training and financial support for the

armed forces, Constantine X fatally weakened Byzantine defences (by disbanding

the Armenian local militia of 50,000 men) at a crucial point of time, coinciding

with the westward advance of the

Seljuk Turks

and their Turcoman allies.

Constantine became naturally unpopular with the supporters of Isaac within

the military aristocracy, who attempted to assassinate him in 1061; he was also

unpopular with the general population, after he raised taxes to try to pay the

army at long last.

Constantine lost most of Byzantine

Italy
to the

Normans
under

Robert Guiscard

, except for the territory around

Bari, though a

resurgence of interest in retaining

Apulia
occurred

under his watch and he appointed at least four

catepans of Italy

:

Miriarch
,

Maruli
,

Sirianus
,

and

Mabrica

. He also suffered invasions from

Alp Arslan

in

Asia Minor

in 1064 and the

Uzes

in the Balkans

in 1065. Already old and unhealthy when he came to power, he died on

May 22
,

1067 and was

succeeded by his young sons under the regency of their mother Eudokia

Makrembolitissa.

 

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