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Constantine Lekapenos or Lecapenus (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Λακαπηνός) was the third son of the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–944) and co-emperor from 924 to 945. Along with his elder brother Stephen he deposed Romanos I in December 944 only to be themselves overthrown and exiled by the legitimate emperor Constantine VII (r. 913–959) a few weeks later. Constantine was exiled to the island of Samothrace where he was killed while attempting to escape sometime between 946 and 948.
