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Birth:          ABT  835 of Constantinople
Death:          ABT  882 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudokia_Ingerina
Eudokia (or Eudocia) Ingerina (Greek: ??d???a ???e???a) (c. 840 – c. 882) was a 
Byzantine Empress consort as the wife of the Byzantine emperor Basil I, the mistress 
of his predecessor Michael III, and the mother to both the Emperors Leo VI and 
Alexander and Patriarch Stephen I of Constantinople.
Family[edit]

Eudokia was the daughter of Ingr, a Varangian guard in the emperor's service. Her 
mother was a Martiniake and a distant relative to the imperial family, as a close niece 
of Michael II and a distant niece of emperor Heraclius and his second wife and niece 
Martina.[1] According to a posterior version by Christian Settipani, she would be the 
daughter of Inger Martinakios, Logothete, son of Anastasios Martinakios, byzantin 
noble fl. 817 and officer in 819, deceased after 821, and wife, a sister of emperor 
Michael II, and grandson of Theophylactos Martinakios, son of Martinakes, grandson 
of Martinos and great-grandson of Andreas, nephew of empress Martina, niece and 
second wife of emperor Heraclius.

Life[edit]

Because her family was iconoclastic, the Empress Mother Theodora strongly 
disapproved of them. About 855 Eudokia became the mistress of Theodora's son, 
Michael III, who thus incurred the anger of his mother and the powerful minister 
Theoktistos. Unable to risk a major scandal by leaving his wife, Michael married 
Eudokia to his friend Basil but continued his relationship with her. Basil was 
compensated with the emperor's sister Thekla as his own mistress.

Eudokia gave birth to a son, Leo, in September 866 and another, Stephen, in 
November 867. They were officially Basil's children, but this paternity was questioned, 
apparently even by Basil himself. The strange promotion of Basil to co-emperor in May 
867 lends some support to the possibility that at least Leo was actually Michael III's 
illegitimate son. The parentage of Eudokia's younger children is not a subject of 
dispute, as Michael III was murdered in September 867.

A decade into Basil's reign, Eudokia became involved with another man, whom the 
emperor ordered to be tonsured as monk. In 882, she selected Theophano as wife for 
her son Leo, and died shortly afterwards.

Children[edit]

Eudokia and Basil officially had six children:
Leo VI (19 September 866 – 11 May 912), who succeeded as emperor and may 
actually have been the son of Michael III.
Stephen I (November 867 – 18 May 893), patriarch of Constantinople, who may also 
have been a son of Michael III.
Alexander (c. 870 – 6 June 913), who succeeded as emperor in 912.
Anna (d. 905/12 or after). A nun the convent of St Euphemia, Petron.
Helen (d. 905/12 or after). A nun the convent of St Euphemia, Petron.
Maria (d. 905/12 or after). A nun the convent of St Euphemia, Petron.

Parents
MARTINAKIOS Inger ()
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Siblings
INGERINA Eudoxia (ABT  835 - ABT  882)

Marriage To ____ Basil I "the Macedonian" ( 827 - 29 Aug  889)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Konstantinos (ABT  785 - )
____ Pancalo (ABT  785 - )

Children by ____ Basil I "the Macedonian"  827 - 29 Aug  889
____ Leo VI "the Philosopher" (1 Sep  866 - 12 May  912)

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