Θεοφανώ (10ος αιώνας): Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων

Γεννήθηκε πιθανόν στη [[Λακωνία]]<ref>{{cite book |author= Diacre, Léon le – Talbot, Alice-Mary – Sullivan, Denis F. |title= The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century |publisher= Dumbarton Oaks |year= 2005 |page=99 - 100 |isbn= 0884023249 |quote= Nikephoros himself claimed that he wished to maintain his customary moderate lifestyle unaltered, avoiding cohabitation with a wife..And he took in marriage the wife of Romanos, who was distinguished in beauty, and was indeed a Laconian woman. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author= Bury, John Bagnell – Gwatkin, Henry Melvill – Whitney, James Pounder – Tanner, Joseph Robson - Previté-Orton, Charles William - Brooke, Zachary Nugent |title= The Cambridge medieval history |publisher= Camb. Univ. Press |year= 1923 |page=67-68 |OCLC= 271025434 |quote= The new ruler, Romanus II… took possession of the government, or rather handed it over to his wife Theophano. We have already seen who this wife was. The daughter of Craterus, a poor tavern-keeper of Laconian origin, she owed the unhoped-for honour of ascending the throne solely to her beauty and her vices. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author= Goodacre, Hugh George |title= A handbook of the coinage of the Byzantine Empire |publisher= Spink |year= 1957 |page=203 |OCLC= 2705898 |quote= Theophano, in spite of her accomplishments, was but of the humblest birth…she came from Laconia, no doubt bringing with her thence the peerless beauty of the Greek type. Romanus II and Theophano were married about the year 956}}</ref> στην [[Πελοπόννησο]] σε οικογένεια με [[Έλληνες|Ελληνική]] καταγωγή<ref>{{cite book |author= McCabe, Joseph |title= The empresses of Constantinople |publisher= R.G. Badger |year= 1913 |page=140 |OCLC= 188408 |quote= (Theophano) came from Laconia, and we may regard her as a common type of Greek.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author= Durant, Will – Durant, Ariel |title= The Story of Civilization: The age of Faith; a history of medieval civilization - Christian, Islamic, and Judaic - from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325-1300.|publisher= Simon and Schuster |year= 1950 |page= 429 |OCLC= 245829181|quote=Perhaps Romanus II (958-63) was like other children, and did not read his father's books. He married a Greek girl, Theophano; she was suspected of poisoning her father-in-law and hastening Romanus' death}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author= Hyslop, R. |title= Varangian |publisher= Cuthan Books |year=2008 |page= 545 |isbn= 0955871824 |quote= Theophana, a Greek inn-keeper's daughter, married the emperor Romanus II in 958. She was alleged to have murdered this husband to marry the general Nicephorus}}</ref>. Η Θεοφανώ ήταν γυναίκα λαϊκής καταγωγής, κόρη ταβερνιάρη, και το πραγματικό της φέρεται πως ήταν '''Αναστασώ'''.

 

 

Μετά την επικράτηση του Ιωάννη Τσιμισκή όμως, η ενοχή της ήταν τόσο φανερή που ο Πατριάρχης αναγκάστηκε να εκιβιάσει το νέο αυτοκράτορα ότι δεν θα τον έχριζε αν δεν απομάκρυνε την Θεοφανώ. Τότε αυτή εξορίστηκε στα [[Πριγκιπόννησα]] όπου έμεινε για ένα χρόνο -μέχρι το 970 μ.Χ. Δραπέτευσε τότε και οργάνωσε συνωμοσία εναντίον του Τσιμισκή αλλά απέτυχε και την έκλεισαν σε μοναστήρι στην Αρμενία. Μετά το θάνατο του Τσιμισκή, οι γιοί της [[Βασίλειος Β']] και [[Κωνσταντίνος Η']] την επανέφεραν από την εξορία, χωρίς όμως να αναμειχθεί ξανά στην πολιτική. Πέθανε στην [[Κωνσταντινούπολη]], ξεχασμένη απ' όλους, αν και στα τελευταία της χρόνια έζησε στην άνεση των ανακτόρων.