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See also:THEOPHANO (c. 956–991) , wife of the See also:Roman See also:emperor See also:Otto II., was a daughter of the Eastern emperor See also:Romanus II., and passed her See also:early years amid the tragic and changing fortunes which beset the See also:court of See also:Constantinople. Otto the See also:Great having procured her See also:betrothal to his son Otto II., she was married to him and crowned empress at See also:Rome by See also:Pope See also:John XIII. on the 14th of See also:April 972. In return for costly gifts brought by her to her See also:husband, she was granted extensive estates in all parts of the See also:empire. She appears to have been a woman of great beauty and considerable intelligence, and after the See also:death of Otto the Great in 973 gradually superseded his widow See also:Adelaide as the See also:chief adviser of the new emperor, whom she accompanied on several military expeditions. She introduced many See also:Byzantine customs into the See also:German court. After the death of Otto in See also:December 983 she returned to See also:Germany, which she governed with conspicuous success in the name of her son, Otto III, In 989 she visited Rome, where she exercised as imperatrix the imperial prerogatives, and probably compelled the See also:Romans to swear to acknowledge her son. Theophano died at Nimwegen on the 15th of See also:June 991, and was buried in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Pantaloon at See also:Cologne.
See J. Moltmann, Theophano, See also:die Gemahlin Ottos II. in ihrer Bedeutung See also:fur die Politik Ottos I. and Ottos II. (See also:Gottingen, 1878).
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