Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 996, heoi, i muri i tana rerenga mai i te pakanga kino o Spercheios, i tukuna e Hamuera a Ashot ka marena ki tana tamahine a Miroslava. E ai ki te kaituhituhi o Byzantine a John Skylitzes, i tino aroha te whakamutunga ki te Byzantine whakarau, a ka whakawehi ia ki te whakamate ia ia mena kaore a Samuel e whakaae kia marenatia raua. I tonoa e Hamuera te tokorua ki Dyrrhachium, i reira Ashot i riro hei kawana. I a ia i reira, ka whakapiri atu a Ashot ki te kawanatanga o Byzantine, i awhinahia e te rangatira nui o te taone nui, a John Chryselios, nana nei i tuku te taone hei utu mo nga taitara mo ia me ana tama. I rere a Ashot raua ko Miroslava ki Constantinople i runga i tetahi kaipuke pakanga Byzantine, a, i muri tata mai, ka puta mai tetahi roopu Byzantine i Dyrrhachium i raro i a Eustathios Daphnomeles, ka hoki mai te taone ki te mana Byzantine. I Constantinople, i tapaina e Emperor Basil a Ashot hei "magistros" me tana wahine hei "zoste patrikia". Kaore he mea atu e mohiotia ana mo ratou. Kaore i tino marama te ra o tenei waahanga; i te nuinga o te waa i muri tata mai i te 997/8 e ai ki te korero a Skylitzes. Heoi anō, tērā pea i pā mai tēnei wāhanga i te tau 1018, i te mutunga o te
Ko te pakanga Bulgarian, mai i te wa o Skylitzes he maha nga wa kaore i te pono; i te wa e whakaatu ana te tuhinga a Itari o Lupus Protospatharius i tetahi ra rereke mo te whakaora o Dyrrhachium, 1004/5, a kaore e whakahua i a Ashot.