when she was married sheTheodora proved herself a worthy and able leader during the Nika riots. There were two rival political factions in the Empire, the Blues and the Greens, which started a riot stemming from many grievances in January 532, during a ch
532
During the Nika Riot (532) her vigorous encouragement prevented JustinianI from fleeing the capital.
was the celebrated wife of the Byzantine emperor JustinianI
Theodora died of an unspecified cancer on 28 June 548 before the age of 50, 17 years before JustinianI