Nikephoros III Botaneiates
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Nikephoros III Botaneiates, Latinized as Nicephorus III Botaniates, was Byzantine Emperor from 7 January 1078 to 1 April 1081. He became a general during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX
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Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates and Maria of Alania
Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros III flanked by personifications of Truth and Justice, and by his senior court dignitaries from illuminated manuscript dated between 1074 and 1081
A gold coin bearing Nikephoros III's image (right) and Christ Pantocrator (left)
Maria of Alania
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Maria of Alania was Byzantine empress by marriages to emperors Michael VII Doukas and Nikephoros III Botaneiates. Her status as empress was considered a significant success for a newly unified Kingdom
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…great-grandfather Michael married an unnamed daughter of Nikephoros II. At an unknown date, Nikephoros married a woman named Vevdene, but he later married Maria of Alania, the former wife of Michael VII. He seems to have had at least one child with Vevdene, as Anna Komnene mentions his grandson in the Alexiad. Little…
Maria Bagrationi, Byzantine empress
A medieval Georgian icon in gold and precious stones commemorating the marriage of then Princess Martha to Michael VII.
Lead seal of Empress Maria, 1070s