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2 unusual facts about Eudoxia Laskarina


Eudoxia Laskarina

In 1296 she founded a monastery of clarisses and the Sanctuary of Mare de Déu de la Serra at Montblanc, which she entered by the end of 1306.

After the Palaiologan usurpation of the imperial throne, both ladies (dowager empress Constance and Eudokia) fled, travelling the same route from Constantinople to Tende and Sicily respectively and, years later, both sought protection at the kingdom of Aragon under king James I.



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