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data:
  actNote:
    - authority: sswd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Personen der Geschichte (Politiker und historische Persönlichkeiten) (16.5p)
      uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#16.5p
  bioDates:
    - end: 1118
      lang: ger
      start: 1066
      text: '1066-1118. Geburts- und Todesjahr ca.'
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    - code: VIAF
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Clustered authority record
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      typeOfResource: same
    - code: DNBI
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
      searchTerm: http://d-nb.info/gnd/118775626
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: WDAT
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Wikidata description set
      searchTerm: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q232714
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: LINK
      note:
        - lang: und
          text: 'Byzantine Empress Irene (image from "Pala d&apos;Oro", Venice). As there were many Empresses by the name of Irene, scholars believe that she was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Doukaina" class="extiw" title="en:Irene Doukaina">Irene Doukaina</a>. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/767152">study here</a>. The inscription says "ΕΙΡΗΝΗ ΕΥΣΕΒΕΣΤΑΤΗ ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΗ" (IRENE MOST-RESPECTED AUGUSTI Augustus in female form), not offering any other clue. The enamel of the empress is paired with a plaque similar in size depicting  Doge Ordelaffo Falier (both flanking an image of Mary, the mother of God), see in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venezia,_pala_d%27oro,_madonna_tra_i_donatori_irene_e_l%27imperatore_Giovanni_II_Comneno,_trasformato_nel_doge_Ordelaffo_Falier.JPG" title="File:Venezia, pala d&apos;oro, madonna tra i donatori irene e l&apos;imperatore Giovanni II Comneno, trasformato nel doge Ordelaffo Falier.JPG">File:Venezia, pala d&apos;oro, madonna tra i donatori irene e l&apos;imperatore Giovanni II Comneno, trasformato nel doge Ordelaffo Falier.JPG</a>, which scholars believe was put in later, replacing the original image of Alexios I Komnenos whose was was Irene Doukaina or alternatively their son John II Komnenos. There is no technical evidence for these attributions, even though this view is widely accepted in literature. It is only clear that the image of an empress would not be paired with the image of a doge, but with one of the emperor.Possibly also empress regnant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_of_Athens" class="extiw" title="en:Irene of Athens">Irene of Athens</a> (r. 797-802) - see talk'
      rights: '<span lang="en">Anonymous</span><span style="display:none">Unknown author</span> / <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://kotlovka.ru/pgalery/displayimage.php?pid=5237&amp;fullsize=1">http://kotlovka.ru/pgalery/displayimage.php?pid=5237&amp;fullsize=1</a> (defunct) -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irina ( Pala d&apos;Oro).jpg'
      searchTerm: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/File:Irina ( Pala d&apos;Oro).jpg
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  external:
    - auth: GND
      country: DE
      date: 20100917
      id: 118775626
  foundIn:
    - M/Reg.
  geoNote:
    - authority: iso3166-1
      intro: geon
      lang: und
      text: XU
    - intro: geon
      lang: ger
      text: Byzantinisches Reich
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Irene
        - addition: 'Imperium Byzantinum, Imperatrix'
      usedBy:
        - GyFmDB
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: Irena
        - addition: Augusta
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Irene
        - addition: Augusta
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Irene
        - addition: 'Byzantinisches Reich, Kaiserin, 1066-1118'
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Irene
        - addition: Consort of Alexius I.
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Irene Augusta
        - addition: Empress
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Irène
        - addition: Ducas
      typeOfName: varn
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2004-07-06T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2004-09-27T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2010-10-27T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-05-03T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2024-02-08T12:00:00Z
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