Psellos and others have the Paphlagonian imperial family, though divided against itself, united in suspicion of Zoe, whom they suspected of planning for Michael V the same fate which had befallen Romanos III (and even Michael IV). They warned Michael V over this. The latter became particularly enraged every time he was reminded that he owed his position to her and formally ranked after her. He began by restricting her spending. Skylitzes, with less detail, makes Zoe take the initiative with a pre-emptive banishment of Ioannes orphanotrophos and Konstantinos nobilissimos