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Theophanu (German pronunciation: [te.o.fa.ˈnuː]; also Theophania, Theophana, or Theophano; Medieval Greek Θεοφανώ; c. AD 955 – 15 June 991) was empress of the Holy Roman Empire by marriage to Emperor Otto II, and regent of the Empire during the minority of their son, Emperor Otto III, from 983 until her death in 991.
Theophanu was empress of the Holy Roman Empire by marriage to Emperor Otto II, and regent of the Empire during the minority of their son, Emperor Otto III, from 983 until her death in 991. She was the niece of the Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimiskes. She was known to be a forceful and capable ruler.
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The Empress Theophanu, wife of Otto II and regent for her son Otto III, was by all accounts a woman skilled at maneuvering through the complicated world of Ottonian politics. When she died in 991 CE, around the age of thirty, she had accomplished much: after arriving in Italy from Constantinople in 972 at around the age of twelve, she became ...
- Laura Wangerin
- 2014
Dec 11, 2012 · Coronation of Otto II and Theophanu. National Museum of the Middle Ages, Paris, France. Ivory relief of Christ crowning Emperor Otto II (973-83) and his wife Theophanu. Otto married Theophanu, niece of the Eastern Roman Emperor John I Tzimisces, on April 14, 972, and became sole emperor in 973.
Theophanu's memory appears to have been negatively affected by three separate forces of Ottoman culture and politics. The first was precisely the problem to which Theophanu was supposed to have been the solution. Otto I had gone to great trouble to establish the legitimacy of his dynasty. The acquisition of a
This paper will examine the possibility that one such document has hitherto been hiding in plain sight, as it were: the dower charter given by Emperor Otto II to the Byzantine princess Theophanu on the occasion of their marriage in St Peter's on 14 April 972. Usually considered to be ‘Ottonian’, rather than ‘Italian’ or ‘Roman ...
Otto 11’s marriage to Theophanu might therefore be interpreted as a culmination of the attraction Byzantium had in some western eyes at so many levels, even if the Ottonians’ immediate political goals of a firm foothold in Italy are the most obvious context in which to understand the negotiations with Byzantium and their nuptial conclusion.
