Byzantine regents

last Byzantine emperor, from 1449 to 1453

empress of Byzantine Empire (752-803)

Byzantine Emperor (520-582)

founder of the Palaiologan dynasty (1224–1282)

Byzantine emperor from 1347 to 1354 (1292–1383)

Byzantine emperor from 919/920 to 944

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine emperor

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.

9th-century Byzantine empress, wife of Theophilos

Byzantine Empress from 1059 to 1071

Byzantine Emperor's wife

Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empress

Byzantine empress

Princess of Savoy, Byzantine Empress consort, as the second wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos (1306-1365) and Othodox blessed

Byzantine Empress

Mother of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1030-1102)

Patriarch of Constantinople

Byzantine empress

Bardas (; died 21 April 866) was a Byzantine noble and high-ranking minister. As the brother of Empress Theodora, he rose to high office under Theophilos (. Although sidelined after Theophilos's death by Theodora and Theoktistos, in 855 he engineered Theoktistos's murder and became the de facto regent for his nephew, Michael III (). Rising to the rank of Caesar, he was the effective ruler of the Byzantine Empire for ten years, a period which saw military success, renewed diplomatic and missionary activity, and an intellectual revival that heralded the Macedonian Renaissance. He was assassinate

Byzantine empress

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 610 to 638 (565-638)

Pretorian Prefect of the East

Empress consort of Constantine VII

Domnica was a Roman empress as the wife of the emperor Valens, who ruled the East from 364 to 378. After the death of her husband at the Battle of Adrianople, she ruled as de facto regent and defended Constantinople against the attacking Goths until his successor Theodosius I arrived.

Patriarch of Constantinople

Byzantine official

Byzantine admiral

Gregoria (; fl. 641) was the Byzantine empress as the wife of Constantine III. She participated in the minority regency government of her son, Constans II, in 641–650.

Byzantine politician and military leader

Byzantine empress

priest and archbishop

Byzantine official

Byzantine usurper

Byzantine aristocrat and courtier; (1141-1183)

Byzantine general and statesman

Byzantine statesman

Byzantine court official (died 800)

thumb|250px|Michael III with Theodora and Theoktistos (with the white cap), from the Madrid Skylitzes

9th-century Byzantine general

Eastern Orthodox saint venerated for his role in the restoration of the veneration of icons

14th-century Byzantine aristocrat and general