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unusual facts about Byzantine Empress


Agnes of France

Agnes of France, Byzantine Empress (1171 – after 1207), daughter of Louis VII of France and Adèle of Champagne; wife of Alexios II Komnenos, Andronikos I Komnenos, Theodore Branas


Gertrude of Sulzbach

The known siblings of Gertrude include (1) Gebhard III, Count of Sulzbach, (2) Adelheid, Abbess of Niedernburg at Passau, (3) Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine Empress, (4) Luitgarde, wife first of Godfrey II of Leuven and secondly of Hugo XII, Count of Dagsburg and Metz, and (5) Matilda of Sulzbach, wife of Engelbert III of Istria.


see also

Theodorias

Olbia, Libya a town in Cyrenaica refounded by and named after the Byzantine empress Theodora.