Eudokia 4

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexF
FloruitM IX
Dates857 (tpq) / 858 (taq)
Textual SourcesGeorgius 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);
Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history);
Vita Ignatii Patriarchae, by Nicetas (BHG 817), PG 105.488-574) (hagiography);
Vita Nicolai Studitae (BHG 1365), PG 105. 863-925 (hagiography)

Eudokia 4 was the daughter-in-law of the kaisar Bardas (Bardas 5); they were rumoured to be lovers: Leo Gramm. 240, Georg. Mon. Cont. 826, Ps.-Symeon 667, Theoph. Cont. IV 18 (p. 169), Scyl., p. 94, Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 504B (Bardas was said to have a passion for his own daughter-in-law - τοῦτον τῇ ἰδίᾳ φάσιν ... ἐπιμανῆναι νύμφῃ), Vita Nic. Stud. 905C. Her name is given only in Pseudo-Symeon. She was presumably the wife of either Antigonos 1 or Anonymus 42, perhaps the latter whose marital problems are recorded. The affair led to the downfall and murder of Theoktistos 3 and to the dismissal of the patriarch Ignatios 1 (in late 858); the date was presumably 857/858.

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