Theodora (10Th Century)

Theodora was a senatrix of Rome, mother of Marozia, and concubine to Pope Sergius III, whose pontificate, so far as is known, was remarkable for nothing but the rise of the pornocracy of Theodora and her daughters, a period also called the Rule of the Harlots. Theodora was a grandmother of Pope John XI, a son of Marozia and—according to Liutprand and the Liber Pontificalis—Pope Sergius III. She was characterized by Liutprand, Italian historian and bishop of Cremona, as a "shameless whore ... who exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man."

See also

* pornocracy

 

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