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Theodora: Daughters
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The subjects of Theodora's correspondence with family members cover the usual family concerns such as health, grandchildren, family, birthdays and holidays, and finances. Letters from Samuel P. Colt's father-in-law discuss what he considers to be Theodora's verbal abuse of her daughter-in-law and his daughter, Elizabeth Colt, wife of Samuel P. Colt.
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Whatever she may have been in her youth, once married to Justinian, Theodora conducted herself with the nobility of character worthy of one of history's greatest female personalities. It is significant that no contemporary source... hateful of her, ever accuses her of unfaithfulness to Justinian, and no historian since records anything that would call into question her moral conduct after her marriage. Apparently, Theodora gave birth to a daughter, either before she met Justinian, or early in their marriage, but the girl did not live. No other children were ever born to the imperial couple.
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Born the daughter of a bearkeeper, Theodora began her career as an actress at an early age. She may ... have been a courtesan, and she gave birth to at least one child out of wedlock. Converting to monophysitism, Theodora became a devout, if unorthodox, Christian, and for a time earned a living as a wool spinner.
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Cavalli used Anouck Lepère, Theodora Richards and Julia Restoin-Roitfeld (daughter of Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld) to brighten up the ad campaign for his H&M line. View the other ads and more of the collection after the jump.
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The third daughter of the emperor Constantine VIII, Theodora possessed a strong and austere character and refused the hand of the heir presumptive, Romanus, who was married instead to her sister Zoe (1028). Though living in retirement, she…
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Pope John X., elected in 914, owed his elevation entirely to his mistress Theodora, whose beauty, talents, and intrigues had made her mistress of Rome about the beginning of the tenth century. At a late period Theodora's daughter, Marozia, wielded a similar influence over Sergius III., and finally raised her son by that pope to the pontifical throne, with the title of John XI.
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