5th-century Byzantine empresses

Aelia Pulcheria (; ; 19 January 398 or 399 – July 453) was an Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother, the emperor Theodosius II, during his minority and then became wife to emperor Marcian from November 450 to her death in 453.

Greek Eastern Roman Empress by marriage to Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (c.401-460)

Empress consort of the Byzantine Emperor Arcadius

Byzantine empress as the wife of Zeno and Anastasius I

Aelia Verina (Greek: Βερίνα; died 484) was the Eastern Roman empress as the wife of Leo I. She was a sister of Emperor Basiliscus. Her daughter Ariadne also became empress. Verina was the maternal grandmother of Leo II.

Aelia Zenonis (Greek: Ζηνονίς, 476/477) was Eastern Roman empress as the wife of Basiliscus. Her ancestry is unknown.