Thanks to the Empress Eusebia", as well as several remarks by the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. Julian's "Panegyric In Honour Of Eusebia", the primary...
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Eusebia may refer to: Eusebia (empress) (died 360), second wife of the Roman emperor Constantius II Ereleuva or Eusebia (died c. 500), the mother of Theoderic...
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The Roman empresses were the consorts of the Roman emperors, the rulers of the Roman Empire. The duties, power and influence of empresses varied over...
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Agnes of France, renamed Anna (1171 – 1220/after 1240), was Byzantine empress by marriage to Alexios II and Andronikos I Komnenos. She was a daughter...
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Prisca (died 315) was a Roman empress as the wife of the emperor Diocletian. According to the Latin writer Lactantius, Prisca and her daughter Valeria...
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Irene of Athens (redirect from Empress Irene)
Sarantapechaena (Greek: Σαρανταπήχαινα, Sarantapḗchaina), was Byzantine empress consort to Emperor Leo IV from 775 to 780, regent during the childhood...
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Helena (wife of Julian) (category 4th-century Roman empresses)
been brought to Rome under pretence of affection, but the reigning empress, Eusebia, was plotting against her; she herself had been childless all her life...
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Aelia Ariadne (Greek: Ἀριάδνη) (c. 450 – 515) was Eastern Roman empress as the wife of Zeno and Anastasius I. She is venerated as a saint in the Eastern...
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Bruttia Crispina (category 2nd-century Roman empresses)
Bruttia Crispina (164 – 191 AD) was Roman empress from 178 to 191 as the consort of Roman emperor Commodus. Her marriage to Commodus did not produce an...
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Justina (Latin: Iustina; c. 340 – c. 388) was a Roman empress. She was initially the wife of the rebel emperor Magnentius and was then married to Valentinian...
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Livia (redirect from Empress Livia)
Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC – AD 29) was Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of emperor Augustus. She was known as Julia Augusta after...
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Martina (Greek: Μαρτίνα; died after 641) was an empress of the Byzantine Empire, the second wife of her uncle the emperor Heraclius, and regent in 641...
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Constantina (Greek: Κωνσταντίνα; c. 560 – c. 605) was the empress consort of Maurice of the Byzantine Empire. She was a daughter of Tiberius II Constantine...
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Claudia Octavia (redirect from Empress Olympia)
Claudia Octavia (late 39 or early 40 – June 9, AD 62) was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of the Emperor Claudius and Valeria Messalina. After her...
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Vibia Sabina (redirect from Empress Sabina)
Vibia Sabina (83–136/137) was a Roman Empress, wife and second cousin once removed to the Roman Emperor Hadrian. She was the daughter of Matidia (niece...
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Fausta (redirect from Empress Fausta)
Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta (died 326 AD) was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of Maximian and wife of Constantine the Great, who had her executed...
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Pulcheria (redirect from Empress Pulcheria)
Greek: Πουλχερία; 19 January 398 or 399 – July 453) was an Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother, the emperor Theodosius II, during his minority...
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Aelia Eudocia (category 5th-century Byzantine empresses)
Αυγούστα; c. 401 – 460 AD), also called Saint Eudocia, was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to Emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450), and a prominent Greek...
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Ulpia Severina (category 3rd-century Roman empresses)
Ulpia Severina was Roman empress as the wife of Roman emperor Aurelian from c. 270 to 275. Severina is unmentioned in surviving literary sources and known...
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Theodora (wife of Justinian I) (category 6th-century Byzantine empresses)
490 – 28 June 548) was a Byzantine empress and wife of emperor Justinian. She was from humble origins and became empress when her husband became emperor...
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Galla (wife of Theodosius I) (redirect from Empress Galla)
Galla (died 394) was a Roman empress as the second wife of Theodosius I. She was the daughter of Valentinian I and his second wife Justina. Galla's father...
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Messalina (redirect from Empress Messalina)
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, had been the first husband of the future Empress Agrippina the Younger and the biological father of the future Emperor Nero...
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Irene Doukaina (category 11th-century Byzantine empresses)
Δούκαινα, Eirēnē Doukaina; c. 1066 – 19 February 1138) was a Byzantine empress by marriage to the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. She was the mother...
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Kamatera Euphrosyne of Bulgaria Euripos, Siege of Euroea (Epirus) Eusebia (empress) Eusebius Eusebius of Nicomedia Eusebius of Thessalonica Eustace of...
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Anna of Hohenstaufen (redirect from Constance of Hohenstaufen (Byzantine Empress))
Anna of Hohenstaufen (1230 – April 1307), born Constance, was an Empress of Nicaea. She was a daughter of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Bianca...
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Maria (died 407) was the first Empress consort of Honorius, Western Roman Emperor. She was the daughter of the general Stilicho. Around 398 she married...
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Zoe Karbonopsina (category 10th-century Byzantine empresses)
Coal-Black Eyes' (Greek: Ζωὴ Καρβωνοψίνα, romanized: Zōē Karbōnopsina), was an empress and regent of the Byzantine Empire. She was the fourth spouse of the Byzantine...
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Zoe Porphyrogenita (redirect from Empress Zoe)
reigned as Byzantine empress in 1042, alongside her sister Theodora. Before that she was enthroned as empress consort or empress mother to a series of...
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Prokopia (redirect from Empress Prokopia)
Prokopia (Greek: Προκοπία; c. 770 – after 813) was the empress consort of Michael I Rhangabe of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a daughter of Nikephoros...
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(Greek: Θεοδότη, romanized: Theodoti; c. 780 – after 797) was the second empress consort of Constantine VI of the Byzantine Empire. She was a member of...
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