They were confirmed as this in 2001 in the UNESCO meeting in Helsinki.
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The new effective Regent was Romanos Lekapenos, Drungarios (admiral) of the Byzantine navy.
Although such a union would effectively cement the loyalty of the army, it would also strengthen the position of the legitimate Macedonian line, represented by Constantine VII, over the imperial claims of Romanos's own sons.
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John's namesake grandfather had been a commander of the elite Hikanatoi regiment (tagma) under Emperor Basil I (reigned 867–886); John's brother Theophilos became a senior general, as did John's own son, Romanos, and his great-nephew, John Tzimiskes.
John Kourkouas, son of Romanos, Domestic of the Schools of the East, killed in the Siege of Dorostolon
It was sold in 1948 for £17,000 to Azzalin Romano, of the nightclub restaurant Romanos, who had sold his racehorse Bernborough in 1946 to Louis B. Mayer for £93,000.
Though this disaster was reduced by the capture and successful defence of Edessa by George Maniakes in 1032, and by the sound defeat of a Saracen fleet in the Adriatic, Romanos never recovered his early popularity.
The scene of Romanos's first performance is often shown in the lower register of Pokrov icons (example above).