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On this day Byzantium Novum commemorates the anniversaries of two Royal Weddings:

 

On April 27 in 395 AD, the Emperor Arcadius married Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadius

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelia_Eudoxia

 

Arcadius was considered a weak ruler, but Aelia Eudoxia became one of the more powerful Empresses of Late Antiquity.

Also on this date, April 27th, 919 AD, the Empress Eleni Lekapena and Emperor Konstantinos VII were married.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Lekapene

They were married young. Constantine VII was 14 and Helena was a minor at the time of their wedding. They remained married and had children, including the future Emperor Romanos II, the father of Emperor Basil I.

-Marcus Cassius Julianus