Eudokia 2 was called Eudokia Ingerina (Εὐδοκία ἡ Ἰγγιρίνη or similar): Leo Gramm. 242, 249, 250, Georg. Mon. Cont. 828, 835, Ps.-Symeon 675, 681. Daughter of Inger 1: Theoph. Cont. V 16 (p. 235) (ἣ θυγάτηρ ... τοῦ Ἴγγερος), Zon. XVI 7. 15 (Εὐδοκίαν τὴν θυγατέρα τοῦ Ἴνκηρος). She was of noble family, and was outstanding for her beauty and for the decorum of her conduct: Theoph. Cont. V 16 (cited below). Daughter of Inger 1; she and the emperor Michael III (Michael 11) fell in love, but the emperor's mother Theodora 2 and her principal adviser, the logothetes Theoktistos 3, hated the girl because she was too flighty (δι'ἀναίδειαν); they therefore arranged for the emperor to marry the daughter of Dekapolites 1, Eudokia 3, instead: Leo Gramm. 229-230, Georg. Mon. Cont. 816, Ps.-Symeon 655. The date, according to the unreliable chronology of Pseudo-Symeon, was in the seventh year of Michael's reign, i.e. 848 (when Michael was only eight years old!). Mistress of Michael 11 and a lady of great beauty, she was later given by Michael 11 to Basilios 7 (the future emperor Basil I) to be his legal wife: Leo Gramm. 242, Georg. Mon. Cont. 828, Ps.-Symeon 675, Zon. XVI 7. 15 (καὶ ζεύγνυσι τῷ Βασιλείῳ Εὐδοκίαν). She was given in marriage by the emperor Michael III (Michael 11) to the patrikios and parakoimomenos Basilios 7 (the future emperor Basil I): Theoph. Cont. V 16 (p. 235) (γυναικὶ συζεύξας εὐμορφιᾳ σώματος καὶ κάλλει καὶ κοσμιότητι πρωτευούσῃ πασῶν τῶν εὐγενίδων σχεδόν). Daughter of Inger 1, of noble birth (ἐξ εὐγενίδων), she was married to Basilios 7 (the future emperor Basil I) by the emperor Michael III (Michael 11): Genesius IV 26. 1. She bore a son, Leo 25 (the future emperor Leo VI), to Michael (in fact, Basil was probably the father, cf. Ostrogorsky, History, p. 233, n. 1; the date was perhaps 18 September 866: Leo Gramm. 249 (1 December), Georg. Mon. Cont. 835 (1 September), Ps.-Symeon 681 (she bore Konstantinos, in September 866), Zon. XVI 7. 17 (she bore Leo 25 to Basilios 7, but Michael 11 was said to be the father as she was pregnant at the time of the marriage). For the date, 18 September, see V. Grumel, "Notes de chronologie byzantine", EO 35 (1936), pp. 331ff. When Michael 11 was murdered (night of 23 September 867) Eudokia 2 was in the palace of St Mamas; she was escorted into the imperial palace with all honour by Basilios 7: Leo Gramm. 252, Georg. Mon. Cont. 838, Ps.-Symeon 686. See Mango, "Eudocia Ingerina". The wife of the emperor Basilios 7, she fell gravely ill and was on the point of death when she had a vision of a monk who promised her a full recovery; she later summoned the leading monks in Constantinople and identified the man as Nicholas the Stoudite (Nikolaos 26): Vita Nic. Stud. 913D-916B. Eudokia 2 was buried in the Mausoleum of Constantine at the Church of the Holy Apostles in the same sarcophagus as Basilios 7 (Basil I, her husband) and Alexandros 10 (her son): Const. Porph., De Cer. II 42 (Reiske 643).

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