Theodora of Trebizond

Theodora Megale Komnene ([Θεοδώρα Μεγάλη Κομνηνή, Theodōra Megalē Komnēnē] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)), (before 1253– after 1285), Empress of Trebizond from 1284 to 1285. She was a daughter of Emperor Manuel I of Trebizond by his second wife, Rusudan, a Georgian princess.

In 1284, with help of Georgian King of Imereti, David VI Narin she managed to seize the crown from her half-brother, Emperor John II.^[1] Shortly afterwards she was defeated and John regained his throne, but she had managed to reign long enough to have minted her own coins. A silver asper and a bronze nomisma are evidence that she was the only Empress of Trebizond to have coined money.^[2] Either before or after her short reign, Theodora was a nun.

References

^ William Miller, Trebizond: The last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era: 1204-1461, 1926 (Chicago: Argonaut, 1969), p. 30
^ Warwick Wroth, Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1911), p. lxxx, 277

Regnal titles
Theodora of Trebizond Komnenid dynasty Born: unknown Died: unknown
Preceded by John II	Empress of Trebizond 1284–1285	Succeeded by John II

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[1] William Miller, Trebizond: The last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era: 1204-1461, 1926 (Chicago: Argonaut, 1969), p. 30

[2] Warwick Wroth, Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1911), p. lxxx, 277

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