Daily Medieval

The posts called The Marrying Kind (Parts 1 , 2 , and 3 ) mentioned Zoe Porphyrogenita's nephew Michael confining her to "the wome...

Part 1 tells how Zoe Porphyrogenita had one fiancee die, how she rejected another, and how her first husband died. Part 2 tells how her...

[continued from Part 1 ] After Emperor Romanos III Argyros was found dead in his bath, suspicion fell on Michael the Paphlagonian. Michae...

Even if women were not allowed to ascend to the  throne, they were often the link to a throne for someone else. The rulership might not be...