Dobrodeia Mstislavna of Kiev (Cyrillic: Добродея Мстиславна; baptized Eupraxia [Εὐπραξία] or Irene [Εἰρήνη]; died 16 November 1131) was a Byzantine empress...

1076 – 14 April 1132), also known as Mstislav the Great, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1125 until his death in 1132. After his death, the state began to...

Crispina (164 – 191 AD) was Roman empress from 178 to 191 as the consort of Roman emperor Commodus. Her marriage to Commodus did not produce an heir,...

Orestilla, alternately Cornelia Orestilla or Orestina, was the second wife of the Roman emperor Caligula in AD 37 or 38. Her name is given in ancient sources...

182) was the second daughter of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman empress Faustina the Younger. She was the wife of her father's co-ruler and adoptive...

wife or a concubine of Constantine I, and the mother of his eldest son Crispus. Constantine served as a hostage in the court of Eastern Roman Emperor...

The ancient sources say little of her family; however, Suetonius states that she was a great-great-granddaughter of Titus Statilius Taurus, a Roman general...

described in the poetry of Julia Balbilla, her companion, in a series of epigrams on the occasion of Hadrian's visit to Egypt in November of 130. In the poems...

Irene of Hungary (Greek: Είρήνη, born Piroska; 1088 – 13 August 1134) was the Byzantine empress by marriage to John II Komnenos. She is venerated as an...

Komnenos. She was a daughter of Louis VII of France and Adèle of Champagne. In early 1178, Philip, Count of Flanders visited Constantinople on his way...