Constantine Lekapenos

Constantine Lekapenos
Constantine Lekapenos
Emperor of the Romans
	15th-century portrait of Constantine, from the Mutinensis gr. 122 manuscript
Byzantine emperor
Reign	25 December 924 –; 27 January 945
Co-emperors	Constantine VII (920–944); Romanos I (920–944); Christopher (921–931); Stephen (924–944);
Died	946–948
Spouse	Helen; Theophano Mamas;
Issue	Romanos Lekapenos
Dynasty	Lekapenos
Father	Romanos I Lekapenos
Mother	Theodora

Constantine Lekapenos or Lecapenus (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Λακαπηνός, translit. Kōnstantínos Lakapenós) was the third son of the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944), and co-emperor from 924 to 945. With his elder brother Stephen, he deposed Romanos I in December 944, but was overthrown and exiled by the legitimate emperor Constantine VII (r. 913–959) a few weeks later. Constantine Lekapenos was exiled to the island of Samothrace, where he was killed while attempting to escape sometime between 946 and 948.

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