Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te Pakanga o Spercheios i te 997, i hanga e Hamuera tana hunaonga ko Ashot Taronites, he whakarau Byzantine i marena i tana tamahine ko Miroslava, he kawana o te taone nui. I te tau 1005, Heoi, i rere a Ashot raua ko Miroslava, me te whakaaetanga a Chryselios, i runga i tetahi kaipuke Byzantine ki Constantinople, i mau i tetahi reta na Chryselios i oati ki te tuku i te taone ki te emepara Byzantine, Basil II (r. 976<unk>1025), hei utu mo te taumata o "patrikios" mo ia me ana tama tokorua. I muri tata mai, ka puta mai he roopu Byzantine i waho o te taone i raro i a Eustathios Daphnomeles, a ka hoki mai te taone ki te mana Byzantine, engari i mate a Chryselios i taua wa. 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 raupapa o te puna tuatahi o te pakanga, a John Skylitzes, kaore i te marama; 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 Chryselios.