Constantine Doukas? He seemed to have gained some influence after marrying Eudokia Makrembolitissa.
Maybe. Assuming Maniakes reigns three years (so say this is in 1047), what has Doukass (no, that's not a typo) done by this point?
Constantine Doukas? He seemed to have gained some influence after marrying Eudokia Makrembolitissa.
Maybe. Assuming Maniakes reigns three years (so say this is in 1047), what has Doukass (no, that's not a typo) done by this point?
Not much. He's married Eudokia who's the niece of Patriarch Michael Keroularios. In 1057, he intially supported Issac Comnenus but then switched over to the court bureaucracy. Via the influence of Michael Psellos, a monk, he was made Issac's heir. Don't know if Maniakes would go out the same way as Issac.
Probably not.
Doukass might become emperor later though. God forbid.![]()
I can see why. Losing southern Italy and trying to unite the Armenian and Byzantine churches which leads to absolute chaos, yeah he would be bad.
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Yeah. And at least temporally lost - you need another strong dynasty like the Macedonians were for most of their existence (for purposes of this, Maniakes is not a member of the dynasty whether adopted as Zoe's son or not), and Maniakes isn't sounding like the man to make that. But it might not be as bad as OTL.I think we already drawn out as much discussion as we could from this topic. So not much changes except for the possibility of the Byzantines expanding some more (which is likely to be lost eventually)
One thing. Let's say Maniakes is a decent Emperor and manages to last a while as Emperor, if not a long time. Would his reaction to the Seljuk Turks be the same as Diogenes?