Anna (Greek: Άννα, fl. 715–773 CE) was the wife of Artabasdos, one of two rival Byzantine emperors in a civil war which lasted from June, 741 to November...
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Artabasdos, and the marriage took place after Leo III ascended the throne in March 717. Artabasdos was awarded the rank of kouropalates ("master of the...
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654) Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje...
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children: Anna, wife of Artabasdos (c. 705 – after 772). Constantine V (July, 718 – 14 September 775). Irene. Kosmo. The names and place of burial of two other...
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Constantine V (redirect from Armenian campaigns of Constantine V)
his brother-in-law Artabasdos, husband of his older sister, Anna, rebelled. Artabasdos was the strategos (military governor) of the Opsikion theme (province)...
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Byzantine Empire under the Isaurian dynasty (section Civil war against Artabasdos and first battles against veneration of images)
preparations, Artabasdos marched against Constantine, but was defeated in May 743. Three months later Constantine defeated Artabasdos' son Niketas and...
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Tale of Quadrupeds Anglon, Battle of Angilas Ani, Battle of Anicia Juliana Anicius Faustus Albinus Basilius Ankara Anna, wife of Artabasdos Anna Angelina...
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Tzitzak (redirect from Irene of Khazaria)
immediately as Artabasdos, brother-in-law of Constantine, claimed the throne for himself. The civil war lasted until 2 November 743. The role of Irene in the...
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the wife of Claudius, was the first wife of the emperor in Roman history to receive the title of Augusta, a position she held for the rest of her life...
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empress as the wife of Byzantine emperor Theophilos from 830 to 842 and regent for the couple's young son Michael III, after the death of Theophilos, from...
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seals of Theodora, Yolande-Irene, Rita-Maria and Anna of Savoy, as well as on a miniature depicting Helena Dragaš. Given that no seals or documents of other...
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Alexios I Komnenos (category Year of birth uncertain)
co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, his wife Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of their daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros...
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The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only...
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John II Komnenos (redirect from Campaigns of John I Komnenos)
Alexios' influential wife, Irene, favoured the Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios, the husband of her eldest child Anna Komnene. Anna, who in infancy had been...
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Leo III the Isaurian (category Byzantine people of the Arab–Byzantine wars)
Theodosius III, ostensibly in support of Anastasius. Artabasdos was betrothed to Konon's daughter Anna. In 717, Konon marched on Constantinople, capturing...
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Andronikos I Komnenos (category Byzantine people of the Crusades)
his wife Irene. Andronikos had three siblings: the older brother John and two older sisters, one of which was named Anna. Andronikos was the nephew of the...
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Romanos II (category Year of birth uncertain)
By his second wife Theophano he had at least four children: Helena, born c. 955 Basil II, born in 958 Constantine VIII, born in 960 Anna Porphyrogenita...
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John IV Laskaris (redirect from John IV (of Byzantium))
Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and his second wife Anna Maria of Hungary. Anna was originally named Mária and was the eldest daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and...
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John V Palaiologos (category Burials at the Monastery of Christ Pantocrator (Constantinople))
Despotate of the Morea. John V was the son of Emperor Andronikos III and his wife Anna, the daughter of Count Amadeus V of Savoy by his wife Maria of Brabant...
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Tiberius (redirect from Reign of Tiberius)
Nero and his wife, Livia Drusilla. In 38 BC, Tiberius's mother divorced his father and married Augustus. Following the untimely deaths of Augustus's two...
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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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Theodore I Laskaris (redirect from Byzantine emperor of Nicaea Theodore I)
the rulers of the Latin Empire. Theodore's first wife, Anna Komnene Angelina, was the second daughter of Emperor Alexios III. Her first husband, sebastokrator...
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The influence of the prominent Sarantepechos family in the theme of Hellas likely played a part in the selection of Irene as the wife of the emperor's...
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Byzantine princess and empress, wife of Artabasdos Frithugyth, queen of Wessex Gregory, duke of Benevento Hilderic, duke of Spoleto Khalid ibn Abi Habib al-Fihri...
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Hadrian (category 2nd-century Roman governors of Syria)
grandniece of the ruling emperor, Trajan. The marriage and Hadrian's later succession as emperor were probably promoted by Trajan's wife Pompeia Plotina...
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John VIII Palaiologos (category Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Ottoman wars)
of natural causes, and was buried in the Pantokrator Monastery. John VIII Palaiologos was married three times. His first marriage was in 1414 to Anna...
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Isaac II Angelos (category Christians of the Third Crusade)
Anna-Euphrosyne Angelina, married to Roman the Great. Irene Angelina (c. 1181–1208), married first to Roger III of Sicily and secondly to Philip of Swabia...
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Manuel I Komnenos (redirect from Italian expedition of Manuel I Komnenos)
Bertha of Sulzbach, a sister-in-law of Conrad III of Germany. She died in 1159. Children: Maria Komnene (1152–1182), wife of Renier of Montferrat. Anna Komnene...
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Constantine VII (category Patrons of literature)
Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959. He was the son of Emperor Leo VI and his fourth wife, Zoe Karbonopsina...
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Constantine's campaign against the Arabs, power was seized in June 742 by Artabasdos, the husband of the emperor's sister, who entered Constantinople with his troops...
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