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People/CharactersTheodora, Empress consort of Theophilos

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Titles	Order
Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 by Lynda Garland	Saint, 815?-868?
Women in Purple by Judith Herrin	Saint, 815?-868?

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Theodora (c. 815 – c. 867), sometimes called Theodora the Armenian or Theodora the Blessed, was Byzantine empress as the wife of Byzantine emperor Theophilos from 830 to 842 and regent for the couple's young son Michael III, after the death of Theophilos, from 842 to 856. She is sometimes counted as an empress regnant, who ruled in her own right, rather than just a regent. Theodora is most famous for bringing an end to the second Byzantine Iconoclasm (814–843), an act for which she is recognized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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