The son of Romanus II and Theophano, he was crowned emperor with his brother Constantine at the age of three in 960. In 985, with the help of the Varangian Guard, he exiled a namesake rival known as the Eunuch, who had been ruling as regent. By marrying his sister Anne to Vladimir of Kiev, he was re
The son of Romanus II and Theophano, he was crowned emperor with his brother Constantine at the age of three in 960. In 985, with the help of the Varangian Guard, he exiled a namesake rival known as the Eunuch, who had been ruling as regent. By marrying his sister Anne to Vladimir of Kiev, he was responsible for converting Kievan' Russia to Christianity. FTP, name this Byzantine emperor whose 1014 defeat of Tsar Samuel I earned him a reputation for killing a Balkan ethnic group.
The son of Romanus II and Theophano, he was crowned emperor with his brother Constantine at the age of three in 960.
Basil II or Basil the Bulgar Slayer