Anonyma 17 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | F |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 813 (tpq) / 820 (taq) |
| Religion | Christian; Iconophile |
| Locations | Despotai (Convent of the); Constantinople (residence); Despotai (Convent of the) (residence); Constantinople |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Anonyma 17 was the mother of the emperor Leo V (Leo 15); she supposedly had a vision in which the Theotokos threatened her son if he did not stop his attack on icons and as a consequence she pleaded with him to change his policy: Theoph. Cont. I 23 (pp. 36-37), Zon. XV 21. 18-21 (τὸ τῆς μητρὸς ἐξεδειμάτου ἐνύπνιον). She survived her son's downfall and was sent to live in the monastery of the Despotai with Leo 15's widow Theodosia 1: Theoph. Cont. II 7 (p. 46). Her husband was Bardas 4.
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