Romanos was one of the most senior army men and the owner of vast properties in Cappadocia. He was loved and respected by the soldiers, brave and strong, but he loved power, so he took control of it. He angered Evdokia only two months after their marriage, so he left the palace and resided in Asia across the Bosphorus after a military campaign he launched against Seljuk Turks.16
The conditions of the Romans had worsened in the Balkans and in Italy. The Hungarians crossed the Danube and besieged Belgrade for three months in the year 1064. The Ghaz, cousins ​​of the Seljuks, had fled from the north of the Caspian to the south of Russia. They expelled the Pechenegs from their pastures and pushed them to the mouth of the Danube, so they crossed the Danube in the year 1065 They penetrated the Balkans as far as Thessalonica and Thessaly, but the armies were unable to repel them, so Constantine X allowed them to remain in Macedonia on the condition that they engage in the service of the state.