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Eudokia was the third Empress consort of Constantine V of the Byzantine Empire. According to the chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor, Eudokia was a sister-in-law of Michael Melissenos, ''strategos'' of the Anatolikon Theme. Her sister and brother-in-law were parents to Patriarch Theodotos I of Constantinople. ==Empress== Constantine V was Emperor since 741. His first wife Tzitzak gave birth to their only known son, Leo IV the Khazar, on 25 January 750. There is no further mention of her and by the following year, Constantine was already married to his second wife Maria. Lynda Garland has suggested Tzitzak died in childbirth.〔("Irene, wife of Constantine V" (2000) )〕 Maria died childless not long after her own marriage.〔("Maria, second wife of Constantine V" (2000) )〕 Though the year of the marriage of Constantine and Eudokia is not known, it can be placed between late 751 and 769. According to Theophanes, in April 1, 769 Constantine named her an Augusta. The following day two of her sons were named Caesars and a third made ''nobilissimus'', which would place the ceremony several years following their marriage. Theophanes points out the existence of a thrice-married emperor as unusual. On the occasion of the marriage of Leo VI the Wise to his own third wife Eudokia Baïana in 899, George Alexandrovič Ostrogorsky points that a third marriage was technically illegal under Byzantine law and against the practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church at the time. This would presumably also affect the legality of Eudokia's marriage. Constantine was a fervent iconoclast and specifically targeted monasteries as strongholds of Iconodule sentiment. However Eudokia is recorded as a generous benefactor of the monastery of St. Anthusa of Mantineon and even named a daughter after its patron saint, which indicates Eudokia may not have shared his religious views. Constantine was campaigning against Telerig of Bulgaria when he died on 14 September 775. Whether Eudokia survived her husband or not is unclear. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eudokia, wife of Constantine V」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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