Thekla (daughter of Theophilos)
Thekla, Latinized as Thecla, was a princess of the Amorian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. The daughter and eldest child of Byzantine emperor Theophilos and empress Theodora, she was proclaimed augusta in the late 830s. After Theophilos's death in 842 and her mother becoming regent for Thekla's younger brother Michael III, Thekla was associated with the regime as co-empress alongside Theodora and Michael.
Thekla (right) with her brother Michael III on the reverse of a solidus minted during the reign of her mother, Theodora
The daughters of Theophilos and Theodora being instructed in the veneration of icons by their grandmother Theoktiste, from the Madrid Skylitzes. Thekla is the first figure from the left.
Theophilos was the Byzantine Emperor from 829 until his death in 842. He was the second emperor of the Amorian dynasty and the last emperor to support iconoclasm. Theophilos personally led the armies in his long war against the Arabs, beginning in 831.
Theophilus, in the Chronicle of John Skylitzes
Theophilos on a coin of his father, Michael II, founder of the Amorian/Phrygian dynasty
Emperor Theophilos argues with the iconophile monk Lazarus.
Theophilos ordering the urban prefect to execute his father's co-conspirators, who were involved in the murder of Leo V
