The emperor Leo VI the Wise, soon…
April 900 CE
The emperor Leo VI the Wise, soon after the death of his second wife, Zoe Zaoutzaina, takes Eudokia Baïana as his third wife in spring 900.
De Ceremoniis by Constantine VII names as many as three daughters born of the previous marriages but no son.
Leo wants to secure his succession by this marriage.
The work Theophanes Continuatus, a continuation of the chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor by other writers, active during the reign of Constantine VII, records the few details known about her.
According to Theophanes, Eudokia came from the Opsician Theme, which was originally composed of all of Bithynia and Paphlagonia, stretching from Abydos on the Dardanelles to Sinope on the Black Sea and inland to Ancyra, forming most of the northwestern quarter of Asiatic Turkey.
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