After this [making succession arrangements], he departed, after being emperor for seven years with an additional half, while having lived for sixty or even something beyond this
Zonaras 18.9.24
Died after a long illness and was buried not where one would expect (Mangana?) but his body was carried out of the Golden Gate on a boat to a monastery dedicated to Hagios Nikolaos and was buried in a sepulchre prepared for someone else
He died in May, and his son, Michael 7, succeeded to the empire
Date: May in mense Maii . Lupus protospatharius 59.42-43
He died, and was succeeded by the emperor Romanos Diogenes
. Anonymus Barensis 153
He recovered from his illness but soon after his body began to fail and he gradually drew near to death; he entrusted everything to Eudokia 1 ...; after entrusting the children to her ... he lived for a short time and died