NameSophia Phokaina
Birth936, Byzanz
Spouses
Birthum 930, Byzanz
Death989, Byzanz
Notes for Sophia Phokaina
Sophia Phokaina, Konstantinos Skleros?uwife was the daughter of Leon Phokas the Kouropalates (Skylitzes, p. 294), and so, the granddaughter of Bardas Phokas and of a Maleina (Vie de saint Michel Maleinos, p. 551).
This one was the sister of Michael (Manouel) Maleinos, and so the daughter of Eudokimos and Anastaso, daughter of Adralestos and of a woman described as ?tof imperial blood ... and kindred (syngeneia) of emperor Romanos?u (i.e. Romanos I Lekapenos, father-in-law of Konstantinos VII) : Vie de saint Michel Maleinos, éd. L. Petit, Rev. Or.
Chret., 1902, p. 550-1.