id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4167 Romanos II - Wikipedia .html text/html 2099 346 65 Co-emperors Constantine VII (6 April 945 – 9 November 959) Romanos II was a son of the Emperor Constantine VII and Helena Lekapene, the daughter of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos and his wife Theodora.[1] Named after his maternal grandfather, Romanos was married, as a child, to Bertha, the illegitimate daughter of Hugh of Arles, King of Italy to bond an alliance. On 6 April 945 (Easter), Constantine crowned his son co-emperor.[3] With Hugh out of power in Italy and dead by 947, Romanos secured the promise from his father that he would be allowed to select his own bride. In the wake of Romanos' death, his Empress Dowager, now Regent to the two co-emperors, her underage sons, was quick to marry the general Nikephoros Phokas and to acquire another general, John Tzimiskes, as her lover, having them both elevated to the imperial throne in succession. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4167.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4167.txt