• Married: 9 Jan 906, Constantinople
• Died: After 918

  Research Notes:

Theophanes Continuatus records Emperor Leon's fourth marriage to "Zoe" and, in a later passage, that a marriage ceremony was performed after the birth of their son Konstantinos, when she was proclaimed "Augustam". The mother of "[Constantini] Porphyrogeniti" is named Zoe by Liudprand. Symeon Magister records that Emperor Leon married his fourth wife "Zoem…Carbunopsinam" in the seventeenth year of his reign, that the couple's son was born in the twentieth year of his father's reign, and that their marriage was blessed in the twenty-first year of his reign when Zoe was proclaimed Augusta. It is assumed that this source should be interpreted as meaning that Zoe became the emperor's mistress in the seventeenth year of his reign, in [903]. She was Emperor Leo's mistress from [902]. He installed her in the imperial palace 11 May 903. He had been unwilling to marry her for fear of risking even greater conflict with the Church, after the difficulties about third marriage, but eventually did so in order to legitimise his son Konstantinos as his heir. He named her Augusta three days after the wedding. She was sent to a convent in 912 by her husband's successor Emperor Alexander. She replaced Patriarch Nikolaos as regent for her minor son in 913. Cedrenus records that "mater Zoe ac tutores" administered the government for "Constantinus imperator Leonis filius" and that she was helped by "Constantinus cubicularius" who had married her sister and against whom "Leo Phocas magister et scholarum domesticus orientalium" plotted. Following the disastrous war with Bulgaria, she was set aside in 918 by Romanos Lekapenos.

Emperor Konstantinos VII's De Ceremoniis Aulæ records that "Zoe mater…Porphyrogeniti Constantini…Imperatoris, nepotis Basilii" was buried in "monasterio S. Euphemiæ dictæ Formosæ". ¹