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Mothers of Byzantine emperors

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Helena Augusta
saint, first wife of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus, and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great (250-330)
Irene of Athens
empress of Byzantine Empire (752-803)
Theodora
9th-century Byzantine empress, wife of Theophilos
Eudokia Makrembolitissa
Byzantine Empress from 1059 to 1071
Flavia Maxima Fausta
Roman empress and second wife of Constantine I
Aelia Eudoxia
Empress consort of the Byzantine Emperor Arcadius
Irene of Hungary
Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1134)
Zoe Karbonopsina
Byzantine Emperor's wife
Irene Doukaina
Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire
Helena Dragaš
Byzantine empress
Maria of Antioch
Byzantine Empress
Maria of Alania
Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire
Ariadne
Byzantine empress as the wife of Zeno and Anastasius I
Anna of Savoy
Princess of Savoy, Byzantine Empress consort, as the second wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos (1306-1365) and Othodox blessed
Theophano
Byzantine Empress
Tzitzak
Tzitzak (; died 750), baptised Irene (), was a Khazar princess, the daughter of khagan Bihar, who became empress by marriage to Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine V (r. 741–775).
Anna Dalassene
Mother of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1030-1102)
Martina
Byzantine empress
Rita of Armenia
Byzantine empress as Maria
Aelia Flaccilla
4th-century Roman empress
Eudokia Ingerina
Byzantine Empress consort (c. 840 – c. 882)
Irene Laskarina
Empress Consort of Nicaea
Fabia Eudokia
Byzantine empress, the first empress-consort of Heraclius
Keratsa of Bulgaria
byzantine nun and empress
Helena Lekapene
Empress consort of Constantine VII
Theodora of Khazaria
Byzantine empress
Theodosia
Byzantine empress, wife of Leo V
Helena Kantakouzene
Empress consort of John V Palaiologos
Anna of Hungary
daughter of the King of Hungary and Croatia
Constantina
Byzantine empress
Prokopia
Prokopia (; c. 770 – after 813) was the empress consort of Michael I Rhangabe of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a daughter of Nikephoros I. The name of her mother is not known. Her only known sibling is Staurakios.
Theodora
10th-century Byzantine empress, wife of Romanos I
Irene Asanina
empress consort of John VI Kantakouzenos/Byzantine Empire
Maria, wife of Leo III
Byzantine empress
Thekla
Byzantine empress, wife of Michael II
Gregoria
Gregoria (; fl. 641) was the Byzantine empress as the wife of Constantine III. She participated in the minority regency government of her son, Constans II, in 641–650.
Elena Asenina of Bulgaria
Byzantine empress
Theodora Palaiologina
Byzantine Empress consort
Irene Gattilusio
Byzantine empress
Fausta
Empress consort of Constans II of the Byzantine Empire
Zenonis
Aelia Zenonis (Greek: Ζηνονίς, 476/477) was Eastern Roman empress as the wife of Basiliscus. Her ancestry is unknown.
Basilina
Basilina (; died 332/333) was the wife of Julius Constantius and the mother of the Roman emperor Julian (r. 361–363) who in her honour gave the name Basilinopolis to a city in Bithynia (modern Pazarköy near Gemlik, in Turkey).
Anastasia
Empress consort of Constantine IV of the Byzantine Empire
Theodora Angelina Palaiologina
Greek lady of noble descent
Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa
(1125-1195)
Vigilantia
Vigilantia (, born 490) was a sister of Byzantine emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565), and mother to his successor Justin II (r. 565–574).
Domentzia
Domentzia () was a name shared by the mother of the Byzantine emperor Phocas (r. 602–610), and a daughter of the same emperor, likely named after her paternal grandmother.