id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-998 Romanos III Argyros - Wikipedia .html text/html 2949 494 70 Romanos III Argyros (Greek: Ρωμανός Γ΄ Αργυρός; 968 – 11 April 1034), or Romanus III Argyrus, was Byzantine Emperor from 15 November 1028 until his death. He was a Byzantine noble and senior official in Constantinople when the dying Constantine VIII forced him to divorce his wife and marry the emperor's daughter Zoë. The murder of Romanos III Argyros in a bath, from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes. Zoë and Michael were married on the same day that Romanos III died.[27] The next day the couple summoned the Patriarch Alexios I to officiate in the coronation of the new emperor.[28] Although he initially refused to co-operate, the payment of 50 pounds of gold helped change his mind.[27] He proceeded to crown Michael IV as the new emperor of the Romans.[29][30] Media related to Romanos III Argyros at Wikimedia Commons Zoë (first reign) and Romanos III Argyros ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-998.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-998.txt