Eudocia Macrembolitissa
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Eudocia Macrembolitissa , fl. 11th cent., Byzantine empress. At the death of her husband, Constantine X, she married Romanus IV .
Author not available, EUDOCIA MACREMBOLITISSA.,
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