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Birth:          ABT  970 
Death:          AFT 1023 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_IV_Diogenes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Argyros
Basil Argyros (Greek: ?as??e??? ???????, c. 970 – after 1023) was a Byzantine 
nobleman of the Argyros family and a brother of the emperor Romanos III.[1]

According to the Synopsis Historion by John Skylitzes, Basil Argyros was the strategos 
of Samos who was sent to fight the Italian rebel Meles c. 1010–11.[2] It is possible 
that the account of Basil's career in Italy is the result of Skylitzes' conflation of 
Argyros with another contemporary Basil, surnamed Mesardonites, who was the 
catapan of Italy.[3] On the other hand, he may have been a commander of the fleet 
sent to support Basil Mesardonites in his crackdown on the rebellion.[4] He was 
recalled from Italy c. 1017.[2] Modern scholars such as Guilou and Vannier consider 
Basil Argyros and Basil Mesardonites to have been the same person, a view not 
shared by Alexander Kazhdan.[5]

After a gap in his recorded career, Basil appears as the first Byzantine commander of 
Vaspurakan, an Armenian kingdom, which was surrendered by its king Senekerim-John 
to the emperor Basil II in 1021/22. He was removed from the office for incompetence 
soon after his appointment.[6] The gap in Basil's career can tentatively be filled by the 
information provided on a seal discovered at Preslav, Bulgaria, on which Basil is 
named a patrikios and strategos of Thrace.[2]

Basil and his family members played a role in the Byzantine interaction with the 
empire's eastern neighbors. The marriage of Basil's daughter Helena to the Georgian 
king Bagrat IV was part of a peace deal negotiated by Bagrat's mother Queen Maria, 
daughter of the former king John-Senekerim of Vaspurakan, in 1032.[7] Skylitzes also 
speaks of the sons of Basil as archons who lived in the Anatolic Theme in the mid-
11th century.[1] Basil's other daughter, whose name has not survived, was married to 
the general Constantine Diogenes and became the mother of the future emperor 
Romanos IV Diogenes.[8]

Parents
ARGYROS Pothos or Eustathios (ABT  922 - )
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Siblings
ARGYROPOULINA Pulcheria (ABT  965 - BEF Apr 1034)
ARGYROS Basil (ABT  970 - AFT 1023)

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