Also known as Theoktiste, Phlorina
thumb|right|250px|The daughters of Theodora (wife of Theophilos)|Theodora being instructed in the veneration of the icons by their grandmother Theoktiste. Miniature from the [[Madrid Skylitzes]] Theoktiste (), also known as Phlorina (Φλώρινα), was the mother of the 9th-century Byzantine empress Theodora, the wife of Emperor Theophilos.
thumb|right|250px|The daughters of Theodora (wife of Theophilos)|Theodora being instructed in the veneration of the icons by their grandmother Theoktiste. Miniature from the [[Madrid Skylitzes]] Theoktiste (), also known as Phlorina (Φλώρινα), was the mother of the 9th-century Byzantine empress Theodora, the wife of Emperor Theophilos.
==Life== Theoktiste Phlorina was the spouse of Marinos, an officer in the Byzantine army with the rank of tourmarches or droungarios. The family originally lived in, or hailed from, the town of Ebissa in Paphlagonia. Some modern genealogists, including Cyril Toumanoff and Nicholas Adontz, have suggested that Marinos hailed from the Armenian noble clan of the Mamikonian. According to Nina Garsoïan in the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, however, "[a]ttractive though it is, this thesis cannot be proven for want of sources."
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