Theodora II of Tusculum

Theodora II (also Theodora the Younger ) (* 897, † around 950) was a senatrix in early medieval Rome.

Theodora was a daughter of Count Theophylact I of Tusculum from the family of the Tusculans and Theodora I the elder . Her older sister was Marozia , who practically ruled Rome until around 932 after her father's death (924/25). Theodora married the papal vestararius (financial administrator) Johannes Crescentius of the Crescentier family . From this marriage came the Roman Patricius Crescentius de Theodora († 984 as a monk) and perhaps Pope John XIII. Liutprand of Cremona attributes Theodora an extramarital relationship with Pope John X and tells her that she had raised him to the papal throne. However, this story could be an analogy to similar stories that were circulating about her sister Marozia.

Individual evidence

↑ Liutprand of Cremona, Liber antapodoseos, II 48, in: MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 41, ed. v. Joseph Becker, Hannover 1915, p. 59f.

literature

Ferdinand Gregorivius: History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages , Munich 1978
Lexicon of the Middle Ages, Munich 2002

Web links

Entry on genealogy Middle Ages

personal data
SURNAME	Theodora II of Tusculum
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Theodora the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Senatrix in Rome
DATE OF BIRTH	897
DATE OF DEATH	around 950

[1] Liutprand of Cremona, Liber antapodoseos, II 48, in: MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 41, ed. v. Joseph Becker, Hannover 1915, p. 59f.