Zoe Zaoutzaina

Zoe Zaoutzaina
Empress of the Byzantine Empire
Tenure893/897–899
DiedMay 899
SpouseTheodore Gouniazizes
Leo VI the Wise
Issueby Leo
Anna
FatherStylianos Zaoutzes

Zoe Zaoutzaina (Greek: Ζωὴ Ζαούτζαινα; died May 899) was a Byzantine empress consort as the second wife of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise.[1] She was the daughter of Stylianos Zaoutzes (Στυλιανὸς Ζαούτζης),[2] a high-ranking bureaucrat during the reign of her husband.

  1. ^ Shaun Tougher (1997). The Reign of Leo VI (886-912): Politics and People. BRILL. P. 104.
  2. ^ Lynda Garland (2002). Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204. Routledge. Page 111.