Title says all. Romanos Diogenes had previously been imprisoned and exiled for conspiring to usurp the throne, but the Empress Eudokia, the widow of Constantine X Doukas, married him anyway.
In OTL, before marrying Romanos Diogenes, Eudokia was considering other potential suitors like Nikephoros Botaneiates (OTL Nikephoros III), a competant general who had served since Constantine IX and had helped bring Isaac I to the throne (and whose competance seems to have flown out the window once he became emperor after Manzikert). What if Eudokia had married Botaneiates or someone else from families like Bryennios, Phokas, Skleros or Argyros instead? Or, what if, say, Eudokia had married Botaneiates first, then he dies and she marries Diogenes again.
How would things have been different?
In OTL, before marrying Romanos Diogenes, Eudokia was considering other potential suitors like Nikephoros Botaneiates (OTL Nikephoros III), a competant general who had served since Constantine IX and had helped bring Isaac I to the throne (and whose competance seems to have flown out the window once he became emperor after Manzikert). What if Eudokia had married Botaneiates or someone else from families like Bryennios, Phokas, Skleros or Argyros instead? Or, what if, say, Eudokia had married Botaneiates first, then he dies and she marries Diogenes again.
How would things have been different?
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