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Theodora and her husband Theophylact were key influences during the papacies of Sergius III and Anastasius III. Later stories associated Sergius III with Marozia, daughter of Theophylact and Theodora, and claim that the future Pope John XI was their illegitimate son, born when Marozia was only 15 years old.
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Theodora's rule was to be short. The murder in 711 of her husband Justinian and her son Tiberius was to mean the end of the Heraclid dynasty. It is unclear whether Theodora was still alive at this point: according to the late source Zonaras, Theodora died before Justinian, perhaps because it was Anastasia, Tiberius' grandmother, and not Theodora, who was recorded as trying to save the young prince from being murdered like his father. But the fact that no tomb is recorded for Theodora suggests that she died after her husband and son and ... later than 711.[[3]] If she escaped imprisonment, or worse, in the capital, she presumably returned to her homeland.
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Whatever her origins, Theodora had the respect of her new husband. In 532, when two factions (known as the Blues and the Greens) threatened to end Justinian's rule, she is credited with getting Justinian and his generals and officials to stay in the city and take strong action to suppress the rebellion.
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The imperial team of Justinian and Theodora, which lasted until the latter's death in 548, was one of history's remarkable combinations. Although they did not officially rule as joint monarchs, they in fact did. It is not correct to suggest that Theodora dominated her husband. Neither is it correct to suggest that by intrigue or otherwise she pursued goals of which he was ignorant. Rather, they complemented each other, even when, as in the case of religious issues, they pursued opposite goals. Justinian championed the cause of Christian orthodoxy, while at the same time he allowed Theodora to pursue the objective of religious tolerance for the Monophysite heretics with whom she identified.
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