Talk:Romanos IV
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- Romanus IV did not exactly resign. I think overthrown sounds more like it. He was accused of treason and incompetence by his political enemies in Constantinople (Michael Psellus and Michael VII Doucas). His deal with Alp Arlsan was rejected and he was condemned to be blinded. The actual methods used for his blinding were so brutal, that he soon died because of the injury and the infection. Source: J.J.Norwich "Byzantium", Vol. II. Revision of the article necessary. --Spryom 05:20, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- It doesn't say he resigned, it says "he was compelled to resign the empire" - that is, he was forced to give it up. It's just poorly worded, probably because it was taken from the 1911 Britannica or some similar source. You're welcome to make it more clear! Adam Bishop 05:33, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
What happened between the marriage to the empress regent and the coronation ? Is a paragraph missing there ? Something must have been done too get rid of Michael VII. And why is Michael VII described as a 'pretender' in this article ? His claim to the throne according to his article seems legitimate. However, I don't know enough to fix this. -- PFHLai 02:38, 2005 August 24 (UTC)
[edit] Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes and Alp Arslan's Conversation
Adam Bishop In the article on Romanus IV Diogenes, I restored the conversation which is specifically now quoted directly from Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, word for word, from pages 2112-2113. It is far too famous of a conversation to delete, and you are simply wrong that documentation of it does not exist. It is recorded in slightly different form in every history of the Battle, but I chose Gibbon as his remains to this day the most heavily sourced history of the Empire. old windy bear 23:12, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
