I Basileos 
I was born in 0812 in Adrianople, Adrianople, Turkey. I's father was Konstantinos and his mother was Pancalo. His paternal grandfather was a Mamikonid Hmayeak. He had a brother named Bardas.General Notes
Basil I (812-886), Byzantine emperor (867-886) and founder of the Macedonian dynasty. Born in Macedonia to a peasant family, Basil worked during his youth as a groom in the imperial stables in Constantinople (now Istanbul). He won the favor of Emperor Michael III, who made him his chamberlain. In 866 Basil became coruler of the Byzantine Empire with Michael and a year later had Michael assassinated. As sole ruler of the empire, Basil began the reform of the legal code completed by his son Leo VI, introduced other administrative reforms, and restored the scholar Photius to the patriarchate.
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I and Maria of were married in a religious ceremony about 0860. They had a son named Prince of the Byzantine Empire.
I and Eudoxia were married in a religious ceremony about 0865 in Constantinople, Turkey. They had two sons and a daughter, named Prince of the Byzantine Empire, VI and II.
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