However, he was eventually convicted of attempting to usurp the throne of the sons of Constantine X Doukas in 1067. At that time some parts from the theme of Bulgaria were organized as a new province with the centre at Serdica, and he became a duke of that province in 1067. Courageous and generous, but also impetuous, Romanos rose with distinction in the army due to his military talents, and he served in Syria and on the Danubian frontier. His mother was a daughter of Basil Argyros, brother of the emperor Romanos III. Romanos Diogenes was the son of Constantine Diogenes and a member of a prominent and powerful Byzantine Greek family from Cappadocia, the Diogenoi, connected by birth to most of the great aristocratic nobles in Asia Minor. In 1072, he was blinded and sent to a monastery, where he died of his wounds. Having been betrayed by members of the Doukas family, while still captive he was overthrown in a palace coup, and when released he was ultimately defeated and detained. In 1071 he was captured and his army routed at the Battle of Manzikert by the forces of Alp Arslan. He reigned from 1068 to 1071, during which time he was determined to halt the decline of the Byzantine military and to stop Turkish incursions into the Byzantine Empire. Romanos IV Diogenes ( Greek: Ρωμανός Διογένης) was a Byzantine general and Akritai commander who, after his marriage to the widowed empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa, was crowned Byzantine Emperor. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,417 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
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