دور الإمبراطورة زوي في سقوط الأسرة المقدونية (1028-1050م 419-442ه)‎

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419-442 H) is the middle daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VIII (1025-1028 AD / 415-419 H).

She is primarily responsible for the collapse and fall of the Macedonian family.

She placed power in the hands of weak emperors who, in turn, hastened the end of the Macedonian dynasty.

To marry three men she placed beside her on the throne, they are Romanos III Argyus (1028-1034 AD / 419-425 H), Michael IV the Pavilion (1034-1041 AD / 425-433 H), then Constantine IX Monomakus (1041-1056 AD / 413-447 H), and made Zoe, the supreme power in the hands of these emperors, their relatives, and sometimes their mistresses at the same time was the one in control of the scene of events.

Whenever a clash occurred between her and one of her marriage, she conspired against him and got rid of him, plunging the country into strife and intrigues, and revolutions erupted and the capital was disturbed, so that signaled the collapse of the Macedonian family, even if Zoe took a different path.

This is to change the face of Byzantine history, the first reason at the end of the Macedonian family was the rule of Empress Zoe, who handed over power to a number of weak emperors despite the dangers that were threatening the Byzantine Empire, which was in dire need of powerful emperors capable.

Yen has to run the helm of government, but the presence of female emperors like Zoe and her sister Theodora with whom she participated in the rule (1042-1055AD / 433-446H) and then she was alone in ruling after the death of Empress Zoe (1055-1056AD / 446-447H) was the first and inevitable result of the demise of the family Macedonian.