Pulcheria
Byzantine empress, wife of Marcian
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At fifteen she became guardian to an emperor and ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from behind the throne for decades — then married the next emperor while keeping her vow of virginity intact.
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Born in 398 or 399 to Emperor Arcadius and Empress Aelia Eudoxia, Pulcheria was the oldest surviving child in a dynasty that controlled half the Roman world. When her younger brother Theodosius II inherited the throne as a child, she was named Augusta at fifteen and took over as his guardian in 414. For more than thirty years she shaped policy through religious devotion and direct involvement in the era's fiercest theological battles, steering the Council of Ephesus and then the Council of Chalcedon, where the Church settled fundamental questions about Christ's nature. After Theodosius died in…
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