Eudokia 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | F |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 764 (taq) / 769 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 1626 |
| Locations | Mantineion (Monastery of, Boukellarioi); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
| Titles | Augusta (office) |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history); Synaxarium Anthusae (BHG 2029h), in Synax. Eccl. Const. 848-852 (hagiography); Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle); Vita Stephani Iunioris, by Stephanus Diaconus (BHG 1666), ed. M.-F. Auzépy, La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le diacre. Introduction, édition et traduction (Aldershot, 1997); PG 100. 1069-1186 (hagiography); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Wife (τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα) of the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), Eudokia 1 was crowned Augusta (Αὐγούσταν) by her husband on 1 April 769 (indiction seven) on Easter Saturday: Theoph. AM 6260, cf. Nic. Brev. de Boor 77, Mango 87. She was the third wife of Constantine (see Eirene 3 and Maria 1) and mother of the half-brothers of Leo IV, Christophoros 1, Nikephoros 5, Niketas 5, Anthimos 1, and Eudokimos 1: Theoph. AM 6260, Zon. XV 8. 2 (ἀκόλαστος δὲ ὢν καὶ τρεῖς γυναῖκας ἠγάγετο, καὶ ἐκ μὲν τῆς πρώτης ἔσχε παῖδα τὸν Λέοντα, ὃν καὶ τοῦ τῆς βασιλείας ὀνόματος κατηξίωσεν, ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων Χριστοφόρον, Νικηφόρον τε καὶ Νικήταν). Mentioned but not named as the third wife of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) (τῆς τρίτης γυναικός); two of their children (probably the two eldest, Christophoros 1 and Nikephoros 5, but see Mango and Scott, Theophanes, p. 611, n. 7 and the reference to Anal. Boll. 100 (1982), pp. 407ff.) were baptised by the patriarch Constantine II (Konstantinos 4): Theoph. AM 6259. Alluded to as the third and adulterous wife of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) in November 764: Vita Steph. Iun. 165. 8-9 (1169C) (τῆς αὐτοῦ τρίτης μοιχαλίδος γυναικὸς Εὐδοκίας (see Auzépy, n. 168). The execution of Stephanos 2 was postponed from the festival of the Brumalia lest she be offended: Vita Steph. Iun. 167. 2 (1172C) (ἣν βασίλισσα). Her birthday or a day celebrated in her honour fell during the festival: Vita Steph. Iun. 169. 2 (1176A) (see Auzépy, n. 426). The (unnamed) third wife of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), she had a sister (Anonyma 2) who married a member of the Melissenos family, Michael 4: Scriptor Incertus 359-360. She allegedly visited the ascete Anthousa 2 in the monastery of Mantineion with her husband; Anthousa 2 foretold the birth of a son and a daughter to her: Synax. Eccl. Const. 851, 2-5. Either she or Maria 1 was buried with Constantine V (Konstantinos 7)'s first wife Eirene 3 and originally Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) himself in the Mausoleum of Justinian at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople: Const. Porph., De Cer. II 42 (Reiske 645), and see Downey, "Tombs", p. 36. See Rochow, Konstantin V, pp. 213-214.
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