Byzantine • princess of Byzantium, second daughter of Byzantine Emperor Constantine X Dukas by his second wife, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, wife of the 31st Traditional Doge of Venice/29th Historical Doge of Venice
***DIED AFTER 1075***
Born in Constantinople, Byzantium (modern day Istanbul, Turkey)
After 1071 she became the wife of Domenico Selvo, Doge of Venice, who received the title of protoproedros at the occasion.
As she is mentioned as alive in the work of Michael Psellos (1075), it is assumed she died after this last date.
It is not known if Theodora had children, as she is not mentioned otherwise.
Confusion with Maria Argyropoulaina
Peter Damian, the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, wrote a chapter entitled "De Veneti ducis uxore quae prius nimium delicata, demum toto corpore computruit" ("Of the Venetian Doge's wife, whose body, after her excessive delicacy, entirely rotted away.") about an unnamed Byzantine princess whose manners he considered scandalously lavish and which brought to her a horrible death as a divine punishment.
This woman has been mistakenly (since Damian died in 1072) identified with Domenico Selvo's wife by later Venetian chroniclers (including Andrea Dandolo and Marino Sanuto the Younger), followed afterwards by various modern authors; however, since the work in which Damianus' chapter is contained is dated circa 1059 it refers probably to Maria Argyropoulaina, who had died a half century before.
Byzantine • princess of Byzantium, second daughter of Byzantine Emperor Constantine X Dukas by his second wife, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, wife of the 31st Traditional Doge of Venice/29th Historical Doge of Venice
***DIED AFTER 1075***
Born in Constantinople, Byzantium (modern day Istanbul, Turkey)
After 1071 she became the wife of Domenico Selvo, Doge of Venice, who received the title of protoproedros at the occasion.
As she is mentioned as alive in the work of Michael Psellos (1075), it is assumed she died after this last date.
It is not known if Theodora had children, as she is not mentioned otherwise.
Confusion with Maria Argyropoulaina
Peter Damian, the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, wrote a chapter entitled "De Veneti ducis uxore quae prius nimium delicata, demum toto corpore computruit" ("Of the Venetian Doge's wife, whose body, after her excessive delicacy, entirely rotted away.") about an unnamed Byzantine princess whose manners he considered scandalously lavish and which brought to her a horrible death as a divine punishment.
This woman has been mistakenly (since Damian died in 1072) identified with Domenico Selvo's wife by later Venetian chroniclers (including Andrea Dandolo and Marino Sanuto the Younger), followed afterwards by various modern authors; however, since the work in which Damianus' chapter is contained is dated circa 1059 it refers probably to Maria Argyropoulaina, who had died a half century before.
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