Maria of Alania (Greek: Μαρία Ἀλανή; born Martha; Georgian: მართა; 1053–1118) was Byzantine empress by marriages to emperors Michael VII Doukas and Nikephoros...
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Alania was a medieval kingdom of the Iranian Alans (Proto-Ossetians) that flourished between the 9th–13th centuries in the Northern Caucasus, roughly in...
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Irene Doukaina (category Greek people of Bulgarian descent)
pressured her son to divorce the young Irene and marry Maria of Alania, the former wife of both Michael VII and Nikephoros III. Irene was in fact barred...
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Lynda Garland with Stephen H. Rapp Jr. (2006). Mart'a-Maria 'of Alania'. An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors. Retrieved on 24 December 2007. V. Minorsky...
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Constantine Doukas (co-emperor) (category Sons of Byzantine emperors)
1081 to 1087. He was born to Emperor Michael VII Doukas and Empress Maria of Alania in about 1074, and elevated to junior emperor probably in the same...
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Transcontinental royal intermarriage (category Types of marriage)
Michael VII and Maria of Alania. Emperor Nikephoros III and Maria of Alania. Hovhannes-Smbat III of Armenia and an Argyra (niece of emperor Romanos III)[citation...
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Poppaea Sabina (category Wives of Nero)
Roman empress as the second wife of the emperor Nero. She had also been wife to the future emperor Otho. The historians of antiquity describe her as a beautiful...
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Anna Komnene (category Instances of Lang-el using second unnamed parameter)
son of Emperor Michael VII and Maria of Alania. The two were the heirs to the empire until sometime between c.1088 and 1092, after the birth of Anna's...
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Statilia Messalina (category Wives of Nero)
The ancient sources say little of her family; however, Suetonius states that she was a great-great-granddaughter of Titus Statilius Taurus, a Roman general...
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Michael VII Doukas (category Instances of Lang-el using second unnamed parameter)
Bryennios Nikephoros Botaneiates Michael VII Doukas married Maria of Alania, daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia. By her he had at least one son, Constantine...
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Lucilla (category Daughters of Roman emperors)
182) was the second daughter of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman empress Faustina the Younger. She was the wife of her father's co-ruler and adoptive...
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Nikephoros III Botaneiates (category Burials at the Church of St. Mary Peribleptos (Constantinople))
daughter of Nikephoros II. At an unknown date, Nikephoros married a woman named Vevdene, but he later married Maria of Alania, the former wife of Michael...
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Anna Dalassene (category Family of Alexios I Komnenos)
consented to the marriage of Anna's eldest surviving son, Isaac, with Irene, the cousin of Michael's empress-consort Maria of Alania. In September 1077, despite...
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Domitia Longina (category Year of birth uncertain)
empress and wife to the Roman emperor Domitian. She was the youngest daughter of the general and consul Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo. Domitia divorced her first...
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Livia Orestilla (category Wives of Caligula)
Orestilla, alternately Cornelia Orestilla or Orestina, was the second wife of the Roman emperor Caligula in AD 37 or 38. Her name is given in ancient sources...
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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 heir,...
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Maria of Antioch (Greek: Μαρία; 1145–1182) was a Byzantine empress by marriage to Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and regent during the minority of...
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Milonia Caesonia (category Year of birth unknown)
fourth and last wife of the Roman emperor Caligula from their marriage in AD 39 until they were both assassinated in 41. The daughter of Vistilia, Milonia...
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of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. Augustus maintained a facade of...
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Fausta (category Daughters of Roman emperors)
Augusta (died 326 AD) was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of Maximian and wife of Constantine the Great, who had her executed and excluded from all...
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Agrippina the Younger (category Children of Germanicus)
Empress of Rome (1978), a novel by Robert DeMaria (Vineyard Press edition, 2001, ISBN 1-930067-05-4) Agrippina is considered to be the founder of Cologne...
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between Agnes and Alexios, the only son and heir apparent of Manuel by his second wife Maria of Antioch. This or some similar marriage alliance had been...
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wife or a concubine of Constantine I, and the mother of his eldest son Crispus. Constantine served as a hostage in the court of Eastern Roman Emperor...
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Zoe Porphyrogenita (redirect from Zoe of Byzantium)
decided to bring with him to his new station his long-standing mistress Maria Skleraina. Not content with bringing her to court, he insisted that he be...
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Aquilia Severa (category Wives of Elagabalus)
Severa (d. after 222) was the second and fourth wife of Roman emperor Elagabalus. She was the daughter of Gaius Julius Severus. Severa was a Vestal Virgin...
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Claudia Octavia (category Year of birth uncertain)
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 mother's death and father's...
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Lollia Paulina (category Wives of Caligula)
as the third wife of the Roman emperor Caligula. Paulina was a member of the plebeian gens Lollia. Paulina was the second daughter of Marcus Lollius with...
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from 1122 to 1142. His birth is recorded in the Alexiad by Anna Komnene. Maria Komnene (b. February 1106, twin to Alexios), who married John Rogerios Dalassenos...
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Caesar (title) (redirect from Caesar of the Byzantine Empire)
his throne in 705. The title was awarded to the brother of Empress Maria of Alania, George II of Georgia in 1081. The office enjoyed extensive privileges...
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described in the poetry of Julia Balbilla, her companion, in a series of epigrams on the occasion of Hadrian's visit to Egypt in November of 130. In the poems...
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