Thekla, Latinized as Thecla, was a princess of the Amorian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. The eldest child of Byzantine emperor Theophilos and empress Theodora, she was proclaimed augusta in the lat
Thekla (right) with her brother Michael III on the reverse of a solidus minted during the rule 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 (emperor)
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Theophilos was 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.
Thekla (daughter of Theophilos)
…820s or 830s – after 870), Latinized as Thecla, was a princess of the Amorian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. The 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…
Theophilus, in the Chronicle of John Skylitzes
Theophilos on a coin of his father, Michael II, founder of the Amorian dynasty
Theophilos ordering the urban prefect to execute his father's co-conspirators, who were involved in the murder of Leo V
Theophilos celebrating a triumph through Constantinople