Konstantios Doukas
1060 – 1081 · Generation XXVIII · Co-emperor (r. 1060–1078) · Doukas
Konstantios Doukas was a son of the emperor Constantine X Doukas and Eudokia Makrembolitissa, born in the purple in 1060, and for eighteen years a junior emperor who never quite ruled. His father made him and his eldest brother Michael co-emperors that year, passing over the middle son, Andronikos, for reasons unknown. He kept the title under his father, under his mother’s second husband Romanos IV and under his brother Michael VII, and in 1074 he was engaged to Anna Vsevolodovna of Kiev.
When Michael VII was forced to abdicate in March 1078, he chose Konstantios to succeed him, but the young man had no talent for rule and quickly lost support. When the rebel general Nikephoros III Botaneiates entered Constantinople in April, the people rejected Konstantios outright, and an Anatolian army that rose for him later that year was soon beaten. He was tonsured and sent to a monastery on the Princes’ Islands, and his engagement was cancelled.
In 1081 Alexios I Komnenos, who was related to him through his wife Irene Doukaina, recalled him and made him a general against the Normans. Konstantios fought with the Varangian Guard at the Battle of Dyrrhachium on 18 October 1081, where the guard was cut off and massacred, and he died in the fighting. He is often confused with his young nephew Constantine Doukas, and he may be one of the figures on the Holy Crown of Hungary, sent by Michael VII to King Géza I.
One of 13 people of Doukas (1006–1303) in this archive. A great civil house that took the throne between the Macedonians and the Komnenoi.
Parents
- Constantine X Doukas (1006 – 1067)
- Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1021 – 1096)
Siblings
- Michael VII Doukas (1050 – 1090)
- Andronikos Doukas (1057 – 1077)
- Leo Diogenes (1069 – 1087) (half)
- Nikephoros Diogenes (1069 – 1094) (half)
Sources
- Konstantios Doukas · Wikipedia
- Constantine X Doukas · Wikipedia