Konstantinos IX after dismissing Konstantinos Leichoudes, completed his reign in sickness & failure

Summary:
In a eulogy of Konstantinos Leichoudes, Psellos was very critical of Konstantinos IX for dismissing him. He said that the rest of the emperor's reign after the dismissal was a story of sickness and failure. Leichoudes succeded in keeping his independence, in spite of pressures to return 
Dates:
1052 (Uncertain) 
Emperor Konstantinos IX Monomachos (Konstantinos 9)
  • The rest of his reign, after dismissing Konstantinos 13, was unsuccessful, ending in sickness and despondency; Konstantinos 13 succeded in keeping his independence, in spite of pressures to return (:) Psellos Leichoudes 406
  • Suffering from gout, he remained bed-ridden in his newly founded monastery of Mangana where his condition worsened (in the 7th and 8th indiction (1053/54-1054/55):κατά τε τὴν ἑβδόμην καὶ ὀγδόην ἰνδικτιῶνα) κατεχόμενος ὑπὸ τῆς συνήθους νόσου τῆς ποδάγρας Skylitzes 477.78-81
Konstantinos III Leichoudes, patriarch of Constantinople (Konstantinos 13)
  • After his dismissal by Konstantinos 9, the latter’s reign ended in sickness and depondency; Leichoudes, on the other hand, remained in serene independence, despite attempts to persuade him to return to power (:) Psellos Leichoudes 406