Constantine VIII
Unlike their erstwhile rivals, the Phokades, the Skleroi managed to survive and retain high offices under Basil II and his successors. Basil Skleros, a son of Romanos, is attested as a "patrikios" under Constantine VIII (), when he was exiled and partially blinded, but was rehabilitated under Romanos III Argyros (), whose sister Pulcheria he had married. He became "magistros" and "strategos" of the Anatolic Theme, before being exiled again ca. 1032/33.