Theodora of Trebizond
Monarch
1253 – 1285
Who was Theodora of Trebizond?
Theodora Megale Komnene, 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. 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. Either before or after her short reign, Theodora was a nun.
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