After ambushing Constantine VI as he returned from the races at the Hippodrome, Irene had him brought back to the imperial palace and blinded in the very room in which he had been born 27 years earlier. The blinding was so brutal that he died. Brownworth calls it perhaps the cruelest murder that even Byzantine history has to offer, one that left a permanent stain on Irene's reputation.
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Episode 11 (9 mentions)
After ambushing Constantine VI as he returned from the races at the Hippodrome, Irene had him brought back to the imperial palace and blinded in the very room in which he had been born 27 years earlier. The blinding was so brutal that he died. Brownworth calls it perhaps the cruelest murder that even Byzantine history has to offer, one that left a permanent stain on Irene's reputation.
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