Maria 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | F |
| Floruit | E/M VIII |
| Dates | 718 (taq) / 718 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 4723 |
| Locations | Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
| Titles | Augusta (office) |
| Textual Sources | 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); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Maria 3 was the wife of the emperor Leo III (Leo 3) (Μαρία, ἡ γυνὴ Λέοντος) and mother of the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7); she was crowned (ἐστέφθη) Augusta (ἡ αὐγούστα Μαρία) on 25 December 718, shortly after the birth of Konstantinos 7 and on the same day that he was baptised: Theoph. AM 6211, Zon. XV 2. 12. Presumably mother also of Anna 1. See Rochow, Konstantin V, p. 225. Cf. also Ioannes 370.
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