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Traditionally, born in the purple[ 1 ] (sometimes "born to the purple") was a category of members of royal families born during the reign of their parent. This notion was later loosely expanded to include all children born of prominent or high-ranking parents. [ 2 ] The parents must be prominent at the time of the child's birth so that the ...
Porphyrogennētos (πορφυρογέννητος), "born in the purple" — Derived from Hellenistic bureaucracy, emperors wanting to emphasize the legitimacy of their ascent to the throne appended this title to their names, meaning they were born to a reigning emperor in the delivery room of the imperial palace (called the Porphyra because it ...
Zoe was born when her father Constantine was nominal co-emperor to his brother, Basil II. After a planned marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Otto III in 996 failed to materialise, Zoe spent subsequent years in the imperial palace. Her uncle Basil died in 1025 when Zoe was 47, and her father acceded the Byzantine throne as Constantine VIII.
Despot or despotes (Greek: δεσπότης, translit. despótēs, lit. "lord, master") [1][2][n 1] was a senior Byzantine court title that was bestowed on the sons or sons-in-law of reigning emperors, and initially denoted the heir-apparent of the Byzantine emperor. From Byzantium it spread throughout the late medieval Balkans and was also ...
Basil II was born in 958. [3] [14] [15] He was a porphyrogennetos ("born into the purple"), as were his father Romanos II [16] and his grandfather Constantine VII; [17] this was the appellation used for children who were born to a reigning emperor. [18]
Theodora Porphyrogenita[a] (Greek: Θεοδώρα Πορφυρογέννητη, romanized: Theodṓra Porphyrogénnētē; c. 980 – 31 August 1056) was Byzantine Empress from 21 April 1042 to her death on 31 August 1056, and sole ruler from 11 January 1055. She was the last sovereign of the Macedonian dynasty, that ruled the Byzantine Empire ...
The problem of two emperors mostly concerns the medieval dispute between the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire (yellow) and the Byzantine Empire (purple) as to which ruler was the legitimate Roman emperor, 12th century borders. The problem of two emperors or two-emperor problem (deriving from the German term Zweikaiserproblem, Greek ...
Stella Duffy's The Purple Shroud. (2012) is a historical novel about Theodora's years as empress. The Secret History (2013) is a historical novel by Stephanie Thornton about Theodora's life. Far Away Bird (2020) is a historical fiction novel by Douglas A. Burton that focuses on Theodora's early life, between the years 512-522 A.D.