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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
After Romanos had received the imperial diadem, he crowned Theodora his wife on the same day, Epiphany; and at Pentecost in the month of May he had his son Christopher crowned by Constantine [VII], who managed to give the appearance of doing it willingly although he was being coerced; but he was distraught when not in the public eye and deeply lamented this misfortune in private. Only the two emperors [Constantine and Romanos] took part in the procession that day.
In the month of July, the eighth year of the indiction, the church was united. The metropolitans and clergy who had been at odds and differed with each other in support of the patriarch Nicholas or of Euthymios were reconciled. The emperor Romanos exiled the magister Stephen to the island of Antigone for aspiring to be emperor and tonsured him a monk. Theophanes Teicheotes and Paul the Orphanotrophos, his closest associates, went with him too. While a solemn procession was making its way to the tribunal, the emperors suddenly returned to the palace: they had received information that a conspiracy was afoot. The leading conspirators, the patrician Arsenios and Paul Manglabites, were arrested, blinded, deprived of their property and sent into exile. That was the year in which the emperor Romanos made Leo Argyros his son-in-law by marriage to his daughter, Agatha. Leo was a man of great nobility and distinguished appearance, endowed with wisdom and intelligence.
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