Maria, wife of Constantine V

Full name
	Maria (Μαρία)

Maria
Maria
	Empress of the Romans
Predecessor	Tzitzak (Irene)
Successor	Eudokia
Born	8th century
Died	751
Spouse	Constantine V
Full name
	Maria (Μαρία)
Dynasty	Isaurian Dynasty

Maria (Greek: Μαρία; died 751) was the second Empress consort of Constantine V of the Roman Empire.[1][2][3]

Empress

Constantine was Emperor since 741 and his first wife, Tzitzak, gave him his only known son, Leo IV the Khazar, on 25 January 750. There is no further mention of her and, by the following year, Constantine was already married to Maria. Lynda Garland has suggested Tzitzak died in childbirth.[4]

Maria married Constantine between 750 and 751 and, according to the Chronographikon syntomon of Ecumenical Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, her untimely death occurred at about the same time her stepson Leo IV the Khazar was crowned co-emperor (6 June 751) and her husband recovered Melitene. The reasons are unknown.

Maria died childless and Constantine would proceed to marry Eudokia, who gave him six more children.

References

Lynda Garland. 2002. Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204. Routledge. P. 334.
T. Venning, J. Harris. Springer, 2006. Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. P. 791.
Warren T. Treadgold. Stanford University Press, 1988. The Byzantine Revival, 780-842.
"Irene, wife of Constantine V" (2000)

External links

A short article on her by Lynda Garland

Royal titles
Preceded by Tzitzak	Byzantine Empress consort c. 750–751	Succeeded by Eudokia

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[1] Lynda Garland. 2002. Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204. Routledge. P. 334.

[2] T. Venning, J. Harris. Springer, 2006. Chronology of the Byzantine Empire. P. 791.

[3] Warren T. Treadgold. Stanford University Press, 1988. The Byzantine Revival, 780-842.

[4] "Irene, wife of Constantine V" (2000)