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Garland, L. (2002). Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204. Storbritannien: Taylor & Francis.
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from 1321 to 1328. Her husband claimed the throne for its duration, making her the empress to a rival emperor. Her husband proceeded to marry
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indicates a consort to an emperor variously regarded as either legitimate or a usurper, and
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In March, 1318, she married Andronikos Palaiologos. He was the eldest son of
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Henry I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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Michael IX Palaiologos
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