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Events on Saturday 11 June 1042 1
1042Constantine IX Monomachos becomes Byzantine EmperorEmpress Zoe elevates her third husband after Michael V's fallAfter Constantinople rose up against Michael V Kalaphates and had him blinded and deposed, the elderly Empress Zoe briefly ruled jointly with her sister Theodora before marrying Constantine Monomachos and raising him to co-emperor. The episode was one of the rare periods of direct female imperial rule in Byzantine history.