Eudokia 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | F |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Dates | 867 (taq) / 867 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 1631 |
| Locations | Hagios Stephanos (Great Palace, Constantinople); Great Palace (Constantinople); Magnaura (Palace, Constantinople) (topographical); Constantinople |
| Titles | Augusta (office) |
| Textual Sources | Georgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history); Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle); Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history) |
Eudokia 3 was daughter of Dekapolites 1; she was married to the emperor Michael III (Michael 11) by his mother Theodora 2 and her principal adviser Theoktistos 3, who judged her more suitable than Eudokia 2, with whom Michael was in love; the wedding was in the Church of St Stephen (part of the Daphne complex of the Great Palace) and the bridal chamber was in the palace of the Magnaura: Leo Gramm. 230, Georg. Mon. Cont. 816, Ps.-Symeon 655. Called ἡ Δεκαπολίτισσα; after the murder of Michael III (Michael 11), the emperor Basil I (Basilios 7) sent the praipositos Ioannes 91 to fetch her and escort her back to her parents: Leo Gramm. 252, Georg. Mon. Cont. 838, Ps.-Symeon 686.
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