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Traditionally, born in the purple[ 1] (sometimes "born to the purple") was a category of members of royal families born during the reign of their parent. This notion was later loosely expanded to include all children born of prominent or high-ranking parents. [ 2] The parents must be prominent at the time of the child's birth so that the child ...
"the Purple-born" Ῥωμανὸς ὁ Πορφυρογέννητος: 9 November 959 – 15 March 963 (3 years, 4 months and 6 days) The only surviving son of Constantine VII, he was born on 15 March 938 and succeeded his father on the latter's death. He ruled until his own death, although the government was led mostly by the eunuch Joseph ...
Zoe Porphyrogenita. Zoe Porphyrogenita (also spelled Zoë; Greek: Ζωή Πορφυρογέννητη, Medieval Greek: [zoˈi] "life"; c. 978 – 1050) was a member of the Macedonian dynasty who briefly reigned as Byzantine empress in 1042, alongside her sister Theodora. Before that she was enthroned as empress consort or empress mother to a ...
Porphyrogennētos (πορφυρογέννητος), "born in the purple" — Derived from Hellenistic bureaucracy, emperors wanting to emphasize the legitimacy of their ascent to the throne appended this title to their names, meaning they were born to a reigning emperor in the delivery room of the imperial palace (called the Porphyra because it ...
The Byzantine Empire was the medieval continuation of the ancient Roman Empire, its capital having been transferred from Rome to Constantinople in the 4th century by Rome's first Christian emperor, Constantine the Great. Though hereditary succession was often the norm, the Byzantine Empire was rooted in the bureaucracy of Ancient Rome, rather ...
Stella Duffy's The Purple Shroud. (2012) is a historical novel about Theodora's years as empress. The Secret History (2013) is a historical novel by Stephanie Thornton about Theodora's life. Far Away Bird (2020) is a historical fiction novel by Douglas A. Burton that focuses on Theodora's early life, between the years 512-522 A.D.
The Minions are small, yellow capsule-shaped creatures with round gray goggles. They are depicted as being roughly one-third to one-half the height of humans but they were later revealed to be 3 feet 7 inches (1.1 m) tall. They have one or two eyes, and their irises are almost always brown (except for Bob, who has one green and one brown eye ).
Justinian was born in Tauresium, Dardania, [ 10][ 11] probably in 482. [ 12] A native speaker of Latin (possibly the last Roman emperor to be one), [ 13] he came from a peasant family thought to have been of either of Illyro-Roman [ 14][ 15][ 16] or Thraco-Roman [ 17][ 18][ 19] origin. The name Iustinianus, which he took later, is indicative of ...