Lekapenos family

Byzantine emperor from 919/920 to 944

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine emperor

Patriarch of Constantinople

Empress consort of Constantine VII

10th-century Byzantine empress, wife of Romanos I

Empress consort of Peter I of Bulgaria

Byzantine official

thumb|right|Miliaresion from 931–944, showing [[Romanos I's bust on a cross on the obverse and listing the names of Romanos and his co-emperors, Constantine VII, Stephen Lekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos on the reverse]] Lekapenos () or Lakapenos (), usually Latinized as Lecapenus or Lacapenus, feminine form Lekapene () or Lakapene (), Latinized as Lecapene or Lacapene, was the name of a prominent, assumed, Byzantine-Armenian family of humble background which intermarried with and almost managed to usurp the throne from the Macedonian dynasty in the first half of the 10th century.