<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VII" id="mwEw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Constantine VII">Constantine VII</a>, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_VI_the_Wise" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leo VI the Wise">Leo VI the Wise</a>, becomes nominal ruler of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwFQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> under the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency" id="mwFg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Regency">regency</a> of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Mystikos" id="mwFw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nicholas Mystikos">Nicholas Mystikos</a>, appointed by Constantine's uncle <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_(Byzantine_emperor)" id="mwGA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Alexander (Byzantine emperor)">Alexander</a> on his deathbed.<sup about="#mwt16" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_6#cite_note-1" id="mwGQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwGg">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt13" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGrierson1973">Grierson, Philip (1973). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dDH8GM4xrysC&amp;pg=PA526" id="mwBaw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBa0">Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: Leo III to Nicephorus III, 717–1801</i></a>. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. p.<span id="mwBa4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>526. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBa8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBbA" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-08-84020-45-5" id="mwBbE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-08-84020-45-5"><bdi id="mwBbI">978-08-84020-45-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt13" class="Z3988" id="mwBbM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Catalogue+of+the+Byzantine+Coins+in+the+Dumbarton+Oaks+Collection+and+in+the+Whittemore+Collection%3A+Leo+III+to+Nicephorus+III%2C+717%E2%80%931801&amp;rft.place=Washington%2C+D.C.&amp;rft.pages=526&amp;rft.pub=Dumbarton+Oaks&amp;rft.date=1973&amp;rft.isbn=978-08-84020-45-5&amp;rft.aulast=Grierson&amp;rft.aufirst=Philip&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DdDH8GM4xrysC%26pg%3DPA526&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+6"></span></span>