Romanos I Lekapenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 870)
Romanos I Lekapenos (Greek: Ρωμανός Λεκαπηνός; c. 870 – 15 June 948), Latinized as Romanus I Lecapenus, was a Byzantine-Armenian naval admiral who became Byzantine emperor and reigned from December 919 until his deposition on December 944.