Thekla (sister of Michael III.)
Thekla ( Middle Greek Θέκλα , * probably around 822/23; † after 867 in Constantinople ) was a Byzantine princess.
Life
Thekla was probably the eldest daughter of the emperor Theophilus and the Theodora . She had four sisters (Anna, Anastasia, Pulcheria, Maria) and two brothers, the late Constantine and the future Emperor Michael III.
When Theophilos died in 842, she became co-empress alongside her mother and appears as such on coins together with her younger brother . In fact, however, the eunuch Theoktistus ran the affairs of state. There are different traditions about the fate of Theklas after Theodora's disempowerment in late 855 / early 856 by Kaisar Bardas . It seems certain that at the latest in 858 she entered the Gastria monastery in Constantinople together with her sisters Anna, Anastasia and Pulcheria (Maria had died around 840). Thekla is said to have still lived there when her brother was killed in 867 by his successor Basil I (whose lover she is said to have been according to some sources).
swell
- Joseph Genesius 4, 11
- Johannes Skylitzes 52-53; 56; 97-98
- Pseudo-Symeon 658; 686
- Theophanes Continuatus 3, 5; 4, 22
- John Zonaras 15:26 ; 16, 3
literature
- Ralph-Johannes Lilie , Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Beate Zielke: Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period . 1st department: (641−867). Volume 4: Plato (# 6266) - Theophylaktos (# 8345). Created after preliminary work by F. Winkelmann . Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. De Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-016674-7 , pp. 332-335 No. 7261.
- Georg Ostrogorsky : Byzantine History 324–1453. 2nd Edition. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006 (unmodified reprint of the special edition from 1965), ISBN 3-406-39759-X , p. 183.
- Warren Treadgold : A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 1997, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2 , p. 453.
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SURNAME | Thekla |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Θέκλα (Middle Greek) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine princess, sister of Michael III. |
DATE OF BIRTH | at 822 |
DATE OF DEATH | after 867 |
Place of death | Constantinople |