The fairy tale about Cinderella, with whom a handsome prince fell in love, has been exciting the minds of young and not-so-young girls for many years. Variations on this theme appear from time to time on television screens and on the pages of books. Is this possible in real life? There are plenty of examples!

In the 10th century, Anastasia, the daughter of an innkeeper, lived and worked in Byzantium as a representative of the oldest profession, and was simply a prostitute. They say she was beautiful and a good specialist in her profession) Therefore, they invited her to entertain guests at various feasts. And at one of these drinking parties she managed to meet prince charming, heir to the Byzantine throne - Roman, son of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. Either Anastasia was very smart that she managed to fall in love with the prince, or Roman was so stupid that he fell in love with a whore, or love knows no barriers and other pink vanilla, but the fact remains a fact.

Feofano. Mosaic.

Surprisingly, permission to marry was obtained, although this was not the kind of wife one of the most educated people of his era, Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, wanted for his son. In 958 Roman and now Feofano were married. So, here she is in the palace, here she has entered the imperial family, someday in the future her husband will become the emperor, and she will become the empress. It would seem, what more could you want? Authorities. Right here and now. In 959, Constantine Porphyrogenitus dies and rumors spread throughout the city that the cause was poison from the hands of Theophano. Is this true or not? One thing is clear: the father-in-law and daughter-in-law had a difficult relationship.

Feofano, poisoning Constantine Porphyrogenitus. Madrid Skylitzes.

Roman II The young man is on the throne, his beautiful wife is next to him. The new emperor ascended the throne at the age of 21 and was, frankly speaking, a rather weak ruler. All he was interested in was feasts, hunting and entertainment. Therefore, his 18-year-old wife began consolidating power - she sent the emperor’s mother and sisters to the monastery. Otherwise, you never know, the Byzantine throne is shaky and there are many who want to sit on it, especially with the support of the other children of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. In fact, she was leading the country at that moment - people she liked were appointed to government posts, and her ill-wishers were exiled to hell.

Death of Roman II. Unknown author, 13th century.

A riotous lifestyle undermined Roman’s health. He died in 963. Feofano is left alone with four children in her arms. She, of course, immediately becomes regent, but it is foolish to expect that no one will try to snatch the empty throne from the hands of the hated empress by many. Moreover, the contenders for it are right there. Feofano, using all his skill from past life, made a bet on Nikephoros Fokus. I don’t know what this woman was capable of, but great commander, who put hordes of enemies to flight, surrendered under the spell of Theophano. With her help and with the help of his army, he became the next emperor of Byzantium and immediately married Theophano.

Nikifor Foka

If Nikifor Phokas was a good commander, then he was a bad emperor. During the years of his reign, the country was mired in endless ruinous wars, people were starving and began to grumble. In the 6th year of his reign, Feofano realized that this was the end. Nikephoros will soon be removed from the throne, and with him, she. She needs a new emperor, and she has found one. I found it and missed it...

Coronation of John Tzimiskes. Madrid Skylitze.

John Tzimiskes, nephew of Nikephoros Phocas and part-time lover of Theophano, organized a conspiracy against the current emperor. Nikephoros is killed, on the throne is John, who was by no means a fool in love, like his predecessor. He understood perfectly well that the woman who survived three emperors would also survive him. Unless you take action. And he took action - Feofano was declared the murderer of Nikephoros Phocas and exiled to a cell on the island of Antigoni. Ironically, from her new habitat she had a clear view of the palace where she had once been empress. That’s cruel of John, isn’t it?)

From that moment the decline of Feofano began. But she is only 28 years old! Of course, she escaped from this island, tried to entangle John Tzimisces with her spell, but was exiled again. Now to Armenia. She returned to Constantinople only in 976, when her son Vasily II the Bulgarian Slayer sat on the throne. Since then, nothing has been known about Feofano; apparently the son took after his mother and did not want to share power with anyone, even with her.

Theophano's two sons alternately became emperors of Byzantium - Vasily II and Constantine VII, and his daughter Anna became his wife Prince of Kyiv Vladimir.

Feofano(Greek; X century), - Byzantine empress, wife of two emperors Romanus II the Young (959-963) and Nikephoros II Phocas (963-969), mother of Emperor Basil II the Bulgarian Slayers (976-1025), his brother Constantine VIII (1025 -1028) and Anna, married to the Grand Duke of Kyiv Vladimir Svyatoslavich.

Biography

The future queen was born in Laconia. Her biography is similar to historical novel: this, according to Leo the Deacon, “the most beautiful, seductive and sophisticated woman of her time, equally distinguished by her beauty, abilities, ambition and depravity,” was the daughter of a Constantinople tavern, in whose establishment she worked as a prostitute. Originally she bore the name Anastaso. She captivated the young heir to the throne, Roman, who had lost his minor, nominal wife Bertha; having completely captured his heart, Feofano reached royal throne.

After the death of Roman's father, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Feofano forced Roman to expel his sisters, educated princesses, from the palace and imprison them within the monastery walls. Roman's mother, Queen Elena, did not survive this grief for long. Roman, devoted to pleasure, did not reign for long; Apparently, during his lifetime, Theophano began relations with the commander Nicephorus Foka, and the old warrior completely succumbed to her charms. After the death of Roman, Feofano was proclaimed regent for her young sons; but soon Nikifor took the throne. Nikephoros, observing prudent chastity, ordered Sincellus Anthony Studitus to transfer Theophano from the imperial palace to the palace in Blachernae. But on September 20, throwing away all pretense, he married Feofano.

Six years later, a conspiracy was formed against the stern and unsociable Nikephoros, led by Theophano and her lover, Nikephoros’s brilliant associate, John Tzimiskes. Nikephoros was brutally killed, Tzimiskes seized the throne. But Theophano was mistaken about her accomplice, who immediately expelled her from the palace, at the request of Patriarch Polyeuctus, outraged by their crime; Feofano was taken from the palace to a cell on the bare island of Antigoni (Kynalyada), from where she could see her former palaces. When she managed to escape and hide behind the walls of the Hagia Sophia, she, the mother of young emperors, was pulled out of the cathedral by force and sent to a remote Armenian monastery; from there it was returned to the palace only after the death of Tzimiskes, in 976. Shattered by the fate that befell her, she completely disappears from the pages of palace history. She was buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles, next to her two royal spouses.

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The accusations of Tzimisces regarding the involvement of Augusta Theophano in the murder of Nikephoros II were quite enough for the synclite, together with the patriarch, to decide to remove her from the regency and exile her to one of the remote monasteries. Having learned about her fate, the enraged empress in the Church of St. Sophia rushed at John and tried to scratch out his eyes, and when she was dragged away with difficulty, she began to scold him and Vasily Nof in a way that no other man could have done - the youth spent in the tavern had an effect.

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Vasily II Bulgarokton (Bulgaro-Slayer) (958 - 1025, resp. from 960, imp. from 963, fact. from 976)

Vasily, the son of Roman II, for the ferocity shown in the wars with Bulgaria, nicknamed Bulgarokton or the Bulgarian Slayer, is the most significant emperor of the Macedonian dynasty. Not under any ruler after him did Byzantium achieve such power - neither economic, nor military, nor territorial.

Formally, Vasily and his younger brother Constantine VIII ascended the throne immediately after the death of their father, in which a group of synclitists led by Patriarch Polyeuctus played a significant role. For thirteen years, until the death of John Tzimiskes, Vasily II did not take any real part in governing the country. Even after 976, Vasily Nof continued to patronize the young sovereign (Constantine VIII, during the life of his elder brother, withdrew from state affairs). In 985, the emperor managed to get rid of a powerful eunuch relative by exiling him.

The reign of Vasily the Bolgaro-Boytsy is characterized not only by the successes achieved under him, but also by the colossal difficulties that the basileus had to overcome. The main danger to imperial power came from within. Two largest in the history of Byzantium in the 10th century. rebellion of the military-landowning nobility - the so-called. apostasies, which followed with an interval of several years, almost destroyed the country.

The first of them broke out almost immediately after the death of Tzimiskes. Vasily Nof, fearing the power of the famous Varda Skler, removed him from the post of Domestic of the Schools of the East and sent him, in fact, into honorable exile - strategist of Mesopotamia. In response, Sklir and another prominent commander of the empire, Mikhail Wurza, rebelled their troops in the summer of 976. The authority of both of them was very great, and a year later almost all of Asia Minor was outside the control of the Constantinople government. In addition, Bulgaria rebelled, and the Romans quickly lost most of the conquests of John Tzimiskes there. Imperial Army, sent against the eastern rebels, was defeated in two battles by Skler. After much deliberation, it was decided to return the disgraced Varda Phokas (son of the Kuropalat Leo) and entrust him with the salvation of the state.

At first he suffered a series of defeats, and Vardas Sklir had already taken Nicaea, Avidos and Attalia. But then fire ships from the capital burned Sklir's fleet in the Avidos bay, and on March 24, 978 Sklir lost the decisive battle to Phocas, was wounded in a duel with the latter and fled far abroad - to Baghdad.

Nine years later, Varda Sklir, by that time already a very old man, again appeared within the Roman Empire. The domestic Bardas Phocas set out to meet his troops, but in August 987 he suddenly proclaimed himself emperor, captured Sklerus by cunning and, uniting both troops, went to Antioch, which he captured by the end of the year.

The situation was critical - the majority of the Roman army fought against the sovereign! Vasily II was forced to turn for help to the “barbarian” - the Grand Duke of Kyiv Vladimir Svyatoslavich. He agreed to allocate part of the squad, but set a counter condition - to marry Vasily and Konstantin’s sister, Anna, to him. The demand was unheard of - Roman princesses were not married to “despicable” foreigners! The exceptions were the granddaughter of Roman I Maria (see “Roman I”) and the niece of John Tzimiskes Theophano, who became the wife of Emperor Otto II, but neither of them was porphyritic, and most importantly, Vladimir was a pagan. However, there was no choice, since the wave of rebellion was rolling towards the capital with terrifying speed - and the emperor agreed. A 6,000-strong detachment of Russian-Varangian mercenaries arrived in Constantinople, and the government army reinforced by it in the winter of 988 defeated part of Phocas’ troops at Chrysopolis. The cunning Greeks at first were not going to fulfill their obligations under the agreement with Vladimir, and he, tired of waiting for the bride, as a warning, besieged and took Tauric Chersonese (Korsun). They were in a hurry in Constantinople, Anna Porphyrogenita was put on a ship and sent to the North. However, the prince also pledged to become a Christian. The marriage of Vladimir and Anna took place, after which Chersonesus was returned to the Romans, and he himself Grand Duke returned to Kyiv, where, according to legend, he baptized his subjects. However, the details of the baptism of Rus' are legendary, and the date (988 or 989) is still controversial.

The war against the rebels was led personally by the emperor. On April 13, 989, the last battle took place at Avidos, on the banks of the Dardanelles. The battle was stubborn, both sides suffered heavy losses. Varda Foka decided to make his way to the emperor and kill him in a duel, but suddenly turned back, got off his horse, lay down on the ground and died. Either the master had a stroke, or he received poison before the battle. Having learned about the death of the chief, the rebels stopped the battle and retreated. Varda Sklir was again at the head of the rebellion, but Vasily was able to convince him to stop wasting the power of the state in civil strife, and Sklir submitted, negotiating honorable terms of surrender for himself and his supporters.

The stormy vicissitudes of his reign changed and strengthened the character of the emperor, who was distinguished by some frivolity in his youth. Mikhail Psell, who was born a little over forty years after the accession of the Bulgarian Slayer and who still found many of his dignitaries alive, wrote about him: “To most of my contemporaries who saw Vasily, the tsar seemed to be a gloomy man, of a rude disposition, quick-tempered and stubborn, and in life modest and completely alien to luxury. But from the works of historians who wrote about him, I learned that at first he was not like that and from licentiousness and effeminacy moved to severity under the influence of external circumstances, which seemed to strengthen his character, made the weak strong, the soft strong, and changed his whole way of life. . If at first he indulged in carousing without hesitation, often indulged in love pleasures... he considered... rest as his destiny... then since the famous Sklir began to make advances royal power... Vasily set off in full sail away from a pampered life...” Having single-handedly headed the state after 985 (the resignation of Vasily Nof), the emperor “... began to abstain from all licentiousness, refused jewelry, and did not wear any necklaces around his neck , no tiara on the head, no luxurious dresses trimmed with purple..." (Psellus,)

The autocrat had a bright and impressive appearance: “Vasily on foot could still be compared with something, but sitting on a horse, he presented an incomparable spectacle; his chased figure towered in the saddle, like a statue sculpted by a skilled sculptor... in his old age, his cheeks were thickly overgrown with a beard, so that it seemed to be growing everywhere” (Psellus, ).

“He always showed disregard for his subjects and, in truth, asserted his power more through fear than mercy. Having grown older and gained experience in all matters, he completely ceased to need wise people, made all the decisions himself, commanded the army himself, civil cases, ruled not according to written laws, but according to the unwritten regulations of his unusually gifted soul. That's why he doesn't
The treasury under this emperor accumulated colossal wealth, which even his unlucky successors did not immediately squander.

Vasily II, like his predecessors, directed his domestic policy towards strengthening the decrepit Byzantine absolutism and its basis - the feminine system. It was the Bulgarian Slayer who became the most furious oppressor of the Dinates in favor of the stratiots and small cataphract fiefdoms in the entire history of the Macedonian dynasty. This trend especially intensified after the defeat of Varda Sklir. To begin with, the emperor made allelage a duty for the rich dinats, forcing them to pay taxes for incapable peasants, and so that no one could evade, in the spring of 995 the authorities carried out a general census of the property of landowners. In 996, the novel abolished the forty-year statute of limitations, which was used as a cover for magnates who illegally owned land. Now each owner was obliged to confirm the right to own the plot either with documents or with the testimony of respected witnesses, otherwise the land was taken away. First of all, the dinats, who once illegally profited from peasant plots, suffered from this measure.

The emperor generously paid officials and troops, built a lot in the cities of the empire and the capital. During the crop failure of 1023 - 1025. throughout Byzantium, taxes on agricultural products were abolished for two years, which, of course, reduced treasury income, but saved thousands of people from starvation.

Popular unrest during the reign of Basil II occurred mainly on the outskirts of the empire (in 992 - 93 - Laodicea, in 1009 - Bari, in 1016 the government fleet pacified the unrest in Tauride Chersonese) and in semi-independent possessions such as Iviria or Aleppo. The internal, Byzantine regions proper remained (after the rebellions of Phocas and Skleros were suppressed) calm.

The dissatisfaction of the nobility was openly expressed only at the very end of Bulgarokton's reign, when in the summer of 1022, during the emperor's absence to the Caucasus, his longtime comrade Nikephoros Xiphius and the son of Varda Phocas, also Nikephoros, outraged the subordinate troops. The leaders of the rebellion quarreled at the very beginning, Xiphius killed Phocas, but he himself was soon captured, arrested and tonsured as a monk. The court eunuch, who helped Xiphius, ended up as a dinner for the lions of the Constantinople menagerie.

The biggest troubles for the Romans were caused by the revolts in Bulgaria, which over time turned into a long and ruinous war for both sides. They began with the above-mentioned uprising in the territories conquered by John I. At the end of the 970s. Four brothers gained power over western Bulgaria (the Greeks called them komitopuli, “sons of komita,” after the title of their father Nikita). The most efficient among them was Samuel, in the early 980s. took control of Thessaly and South Macedonia. Roman Thrace became the target of Samuel's robberies. On August 17, 986, Vasily II himself, trying to curb his violent neighbors, was defeated and barely escaped the battlefield. In 991, the emperor organized a second campaign, won a victory and even captured Tsar Roman. But the latter was only considered the ruler - the real king of Bulgaria was Samuel. He did not lay down his arms: until 995, a strong Greek army under the command of Gregory Taronite barely held back the frantic attacks of Samuel, but in the summer of 996, the brave Taronite fell in battle near Thessalonica, Samuel broke through the border and reached the middle of the Peloponnese. On way back, near the Sperkhey River, his army, burdened with gigantic booty, met with the detachment of the West Nicephorus Uranus sent in pursuit. The reluctance to part with the loot on time did the Bulgarians a disservice - the presence of a clumsy convoy in the army limited maneuverability, and Uranus inflicted a terrible defeat on them. Samuel barely managed to cross Sperchei and fled, leaving his dying army to the mercy of fate. Vest drove fifteen thousand prisoners to the capital. Soon, in 997, the empire returned Dyrrhachium.

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After the death of Roman, Samuel easily took the crown for himself and de jure. The war continued, Vasily II vowed to crush the powerful enemy. In 1001, he made peace with the Fatimids, brought the king of the Ivirs, David, to the obedience and began almost annually to carry out military expeditions to Paristrion (beyond the Danube), striking his contemporaries with cruelty. Almost immediately Pliska, Preslava, and Vidin were taken and plundered. Samuel, wanting to distract the emperor, attacked Adrianople and even captured the city, but the Romans continued to move deeper into Bulgaria, leaving the desert behind them.

For thirteen years, with the growing superiority of the Byzantines, this war dragged on. In the summer of 1014, the troops of the Romans and Bulgarians met in Strimonia, near the “zaseks” - wooden fortresses in the Kampulunga gorge, at the foot of Mount Belasitsa. On July 29, the decisive battle took place. Skillfully maneuvering, Vasily II surrounded the Bulgarian army from the flanks, and Nicephorus Xiphius entered their rear, making a desperate rush through the gorges. The Bulgarians were unable to break through the ring of cataphracts clad in steel armor, and when the Roman stone throwers came into action, the battle turned into a beating. To stop the senseless destruction of hundreds of people, Samuel’s commanders (the king was not with the army) decided to lay down their arms. More than fifteen thousand people surrendered. The next day, the most Christian emperor of the Romans ordered every one hundred and first prisoner to gouge out one eye, the rest - both. The execution was completed, and fifteen thousand blind men, in chains of one hundred people each, led by one-eyed guides, stretched, gaping with bloody eye sockets, towards Samuel’s camp. They say that he could not stand such a spectacle and poisoned himself in October. For decades after the Battle of Belasitsa, in the cities and villages of Thrace, unfortunate blind people lived out their lives, a living reminder that it was unsafe to fight the Roman Empire.

After the death of Samuil, Bulgaria was engulfed in unrest, and Vasily II, with the persistence of a hammer, rained down powerful blows on the enemy. At the end of 1018, the formidable Bulgarian Slayer led his cataphracts, heavy infantry and artillery from Adrianople to the enemy capital - Ohrid. But it was not the army that came out to meet the Romans, but Queen Maria with the keys to the capital gates and the treasury. A year later, the military leader Constantine Diogenes captured Sirmium, the last center of Bulgarian resistance. For one hundred and seventy years, Bulgaria fell entirely under the scepter of the Byzantine monarchs.

Vasily fought not only with the Bulgarians. In 990 and 1001 Byzantium was in conflict with Iviria, in 1016 with the Khazars, and in 1021 - 1024. the emperor, already an old man, led his armies to Abkhazia and Armenia.

In Italy, the active king brought all the possessions of Constantinople under a single authority, creating a cathepanate with its center in Bari. In 1018, the Katepan destroyed the invading Normans at Cannes, three years later the Greeks besieged Garigliano, and only the intervention of Emperor Henry II did not allow them to develop their success.

At the end of 1025, Bulgarokton conceived a powerful expedition to Sicily occupied by Muslims. The landing party was already boarding the ships, the emperor was preparing to take direct command, but suddenly he unexpectedly fell ill and died a few days later, on December 15.

The Latins, who captured Constantinople in 1204, removed his corpse from the grave and violated him. The soldiers of Michael VIII Palaiologos (q.v.) in 1261 discovered the remains of the once formidable monarch lying in a dilapidated temple with bagpipes in his hands and a whistle inserted into his withered jaws.

According to the law of Roman Lekapin, after forty years of use by the landowner of the land, even if it was acquired illegally, all claims on it were terminated, and he became, “by statute of limitations,” its owner.

wife of two emperors Roman II the Young (959 - 963) and Nikephoros II Phocas (963 - 969), mother of Emperor Vasily II the Bulgarian Slayers (976 - 1025) and his brother Constantine VIII (1025-28), mother also of F., Empress of the Germans, and Anna, married to our St. Vladimir. Her biography is similar to a historical novel: This, according to Leo the Deacon, “the most beautiful, seductive and sophisticated woman of her time, equally distinguished by her beauty, abilities, ambition and depravity,” was the daughter of a Constantinople shinkar and originally bore the name Anastaso. She captivated the young heir to the throne, Roman, who had lost his minor, nominal wife Bertha; Having completely captured his heart, F. reached the royal throne. After the death of Roman's father, Constantine Porphyrogenitus, F. forced Roman to expel his sisters, educated princesses, from the palace and imprison them within the monastery walls. Roman's mother, Queen Sophia, did not survive this grief for long. Roman, devoted to pleasure, did not reign for long; Apparently, during his lifetime, F. began relations with the commander Nicephorus Foka, and the old warrior completely succumbed to her charms. After the death of Roman, F. was proclaimed regent for her young sons; but soon Nikephoros took the throne and married F. Six years later, a conspiracy was formed against the stern and unsociable Nikephoros, headed by F. and her lover, a brilliant associate of Nikephoros, John Tzimiskes. Nikephoros was brutally killed, Tzimiskes seized the throne. But F. was mistaken about her accomplice, who immediately expelled her from the palace, at the request of the patriarch, outraged by their crime; F. was taken from the palace to a cell on a bare island (one of the Princes), from where she could see her former palaces. When she managed to escape and hide behind the walls of St. Sophia, the mother of young emperors, was dragged out of the cathedral by force and sent to a remote Armenian monastery; from there she was returned to the palace only after the death of Tzimiskes, in 976. Shattered by the fate that befell her, she completely disappears from the pages of palace history. See Schlumberger, "Un empereur Byzantin au X siècle, Nicéphore Phocas" (P., 1890) and its continuation: "L" Epopée Byzantine" (I, 1896).

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5. Byzantine problems But he partly blames Byzantium for Russian ignorance: “Byzantium could not resist the pressure of the wild East and took its hereditary real treasures there, to the West, and gave us only surrogates of its own production,

BYZANTINE PHILOSOPHY

From the book Man: Thinkers of the past and present about his life, death and immortality. The ancient world - the era of Enlightenment. author Gurevich Pavel Semenovich

BYZANTINE PHILOSOPHY In the writings of Byzantine thinkers, philosophical and, in particular, anthropological problems were usually immersed in theological ones. The attitude towards Greek philosophy could be very different: and respectful, like Psellus or Pletho,

author Averintsev Sergey Sergeevich

BYZANTINE LITERATURE IX-XII CENTURIES.

From the book Literature of the Byzantine region author Averintsev Sergey Sergeevich

BYZANTINE LITERATURE IX-XII CENTURIES. From the second half of the 9th century. Byzantine society enters a period of stabilization. The new Macedonian dynasty (from 867) establishes a relatively strong centralized regime. Cities rising from decline replace monasteries in function

BYZANTINE LITERATURE VII-IX CENTURIES

From the book Literature of the Byzantine region author Averintsev Sergey Sergeevich

BYZANTINE LITERATURE 7th-9th centuries The 7th century turns out to be a turning point for Byzantium. The world of Byzantine civilization is experiencing dramatic changes in everything, starting with its geographical area and ethnic substratum. Under the pressure of its eastern neighbors - first the Persians, and from 634

BYZANTINE POWER AND BYZANTINE CULTURE

From the book World history: in 6 volumes. Volume 2: Medieval civilizations West and East author Team of authors

THE BYZANTINE POWER AND BYZANTINE CULTURE The main result of the early Byzantine period can be considered the formation of a special type of power, significantly different from both the ancient tradition and the states surrounding Byzantium. The Emperor was seen as

Chapter 15 REIGN OF OTTON III. THE EMPIRE UNDER THE REGION OF THE EMPRESSES THEOPHANO AND ADELEHEIDE

From the book The Holy Roman Empire: The Era of Formation author Bulst-Thiele Maria Louise

Chapter 15 REIGN OF OTTON III. THE EMPIRE UNDER THE REGENCE OF THE EMPRESSES THEOPHANO AND ADELEHEIDE At the moment when the three-year-old Otto was crowned in the palace chapel of Charlemagne in 983, his father was already dead. True, the news of his death reached the court after this

4. Ferrucius returns to Rome. - The terrible death of John XIV. - Terrorist reign of Boniface VII. - His fall. - John XV, pope, 985 - Crescentius arrogates patrician power to himself. - Theophano enters Rome as regent of the empire. - She brings peace among the Romans. - St. Adalbert in Rome

From the book History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages author Gregorovius Ferdinand

4. Ferrucius returns to Rome. - The terrible death of John XIV. - Terrorist reign of Boniface VII. - His fall. - John XV, pope, 985 - Crescentius arrogates patrician power to himself. - Theophano enters Rome as regent of the empire. - She brings peace among the Romans. - St.

Feofano

From the book Emperors of Byzantium author Dashkov Sergey Borisovich

Theophano (after 940 -? empress regent in March - August 963) Tzimisces' accusations of Augusta Theophano's involvement in the murder of Nikephoros II were quite enough for the synclite, together with the patriarch, to decide to remove her from the regency and exile her to one of the remote

26. The story of the discovery of the True Cross of the Lord on a Florentine fresco of the 14th century. Byzantine Empress Helen, aka the biblical Queen of Sheba, is the Russian princess Olga

From the author's book

26. The history of the discovery of the True Cross of the Lord on a Florentine fresco of the 14th century. The Byzantine Empress Helen, also known as the biblical Queen of Sheba, is the Russian princess Olga. Let us dwell a little on the history of the discovery of the True Cross of the Lord due to the importance of this

FEOFANO AND HER LOVERS

From the book 200 famous poisonings author Antsyshkin Igor

THEOPHANO AND HER LOVERS After the death on March 15, 963 of the Byzantine Emperor Roman II (959–963), who suddenly fell ill, suffered for 5 days and passed away, a struggle for power flared up in Constantinople. One of the most realistic contenders for the throne was a prominent

THEOPHANO, EMPRESS

From Petkan's book author Habjanovic-Djurovic Liljana

THEOPHANO, EMPRESS My name is a sign of my destiny. Feofano: Declared and chosen by God. True, my enemies said that at baptism I was given the name Anastas. Allegedly at the request of my father, an always drunk innkeeper from a dirty suburb. However, I quickly