A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Zoe
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ZOE, fourth Wife of the Emperor Leo VI. and Mother of Constantine Porphyrogenitus,
In whose minority she governed the empire with great firmness and discretion, quelling the revolt of Constantine Ducas, obliging the Bulgarians to return to their own country, and making a peace with the Saracens. Her ungrateful son, on coming of age, sent his mother into exile, where she died. She is not to be confounded with Zoë, the second wife of the same emperor, who was afterwards crowned empress, and died in 895.
Watkins's Biog. Dict.
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