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Eudokia Makrembolitissa (mittelgriechisch Εὐδοκία Μακρεμβολίτισσα, * 1021; † 1096) war die Tochter von Johannes Makrembolites, Nichte des Patriarchen Michael I. Kerularius und Ehefrau des byzantinischen Kaisers Konstantin X. Nach seinem Tod heiratete sie Romanos IV.
Eudokia Makrembolitissa (Greek: Εὐδοκία Μακρεμβολίτισσα, romanized: Evdokía Makremvolítissa) was a Byzantine empress by her successive marriages to Constantine X Doukas and Romanos IV Diogenes.
Eudocia Macrembolitissa (born 1021, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]—died 1096, Constantinople) was a Byzantine empress and, in 1067 and 1071, regent, who has been called the wisest woman of her time.
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A Byzantine noblewoman, Eudocia Macrembolitissa was the wife of Constantine X Ducas, emperor of Byzantium. She had five children with Constantine before his death in 1067.
Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1067 and 1071) Click on image to enlarge. Niece of the patriarch Michael I Keroularios, Eudokia served as regent for seven months after the death of her husband Constantine X. In 1068 she married Romanos Diogenes, a member of the military aristocracy.
His daughter, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, married Constantine Doukas and became Empress when the latter ascended the throne as Constantine X (r. 1059–1068); after his death she ruled as regent for her under-age sons until she re-married to Romanos IV Diogenes (r. 1068–1071).
Michael Attaleiates implicated Eudokia Makrembolitissa in a plot to remove her husband, Romanos IV Diogenes, from power long before the Mantzikert campaign (1071 A. D.). The present article investigates her possible motives through a detailed analysis of the sources.
