The fact that a woman,Irene of Athens,had been made empress of the Roman empire and not just a consort,was one of the reasons why the pope crowned the Frankish king Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor (of the west) in 800 A.D.

Most of the visual depictions are of Irene (formerly Piroska) of Hungary, wife of emperor Ioannes (John) II Komnenos

This woman makes Kyles mom look like a saint.

There were a few other female empresses, such as Zoe (the last ruler from the Macedonian dynasty) in 1028-50.

People were blinded by using sharp needles like objects, hot bars, pouring hot liquid such as water or vinegar, or by covering the eyes with salt and wrapping a bandage around the eyes. Today some countries administer blinding as a punishment such as Pakistan. In Pakistan they put you out unconscious before they pour 1 drop of acid into one eye or both eyes. One person was blinded in one eye in 2012 and now he is awaiting to be blinded on his second eye due to the offense of splashing acing on her fiancée which ended up blinded her. It is possible to die of the injuries following a blinding due to infection.

Cerseis plotline in A Song of Ice and Fire is basically just Irenes

THIS WAS AMAZING

This woman, particularly, reminds me of how little is known in the West about the richness of the Eastern Roman Empire's history. I always think how well known Agrippina is, because of her personality traits, and here we have a woman who, if we can even put two of them in the same basket, had achieved so much more, showing along the way all(and many other) of the traits Agrippina showed, but multiplied by ten.

Love these videos Norwich 100% definitely rhymes with sandwich, it's a place in the U.K.

Please change the thumbnail, the representation is of John Komenos' wife Irene of Hungary, not Irene of Athens. Seems like you just got whatever came first on google image search.

I noticed you mentioned Irene abolishing a "tax on receipts", which is exactly what you said in your video about Anastasius I. Had he not abolished it fully? Did it come back in some form? Or was it perhaps an error?

2:23 "people who worship icons". They never worshiped Icons. Orthodoxy and Eastern Christianity in general forbids the worship of anything but God. Veneration is extremely different. That's not a minor mistake and extremely inaccurate.

TFW you blind your son and become a saint after your death

Nikephoros I "Skullcup" will be next

Irene was in Dire Straits indeed. I can't imagine the Sultans of Swing to the East helped in the least.

Ιrene the athenian, you are depecting, was not saint. Irene the queen of 12th ce. was saint. She married John II Comnenus the good (1118-1143).

Real life Cersei Lannister

04:56 I'm 4 years late but here's my guess about Tom Perez: after his election to DNC Chair in 2017 he immediately started filling positions within the committee with people who would owe him/be loyal to him, eg: Keith Ellison as Deputy Chair. How close am I??

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25:00 i cant believe they assumed she would blind her own son

Yeah but did she have a bidet or no?

Nice...

She can't top Brunhilda...

what is tha crazy pic of a spce saucer?

Cersei Lannister vibes

Only one minor point from me she may call 2nd council in niceae to give it more symbolic legitimacy, cuz one of most inportant if not the mosti inportan councile was ther. Ofc councile of nicaea.

if irene and Charelamange were married, the byzantine empire could last up to today

Udvozlet sepsiszentgyorgyrol, irenke neni, mar is isztambulba talalkoztunk egyszer!!most is hianzik nekem!

The idea that deficit spending was not a concept is inaccurate. Various generals have been known to pay their troops through literal I.O.U.'s such as Gaius Iulius Caesar during the . But I have not heard of an instance of a ruler instating such a thing so perhaps that is what you are refering to.

01:08 Norwich is the county town of the county of Norfolk, apart from being a surname, though in that case it's his title as a noble. It's a cathedral and castle town I've never, ever in all my 50 years heard it said like "Norwick", which just isn't English. I had to play it back 3 times to make sure, but also sort of astounded at that. I can't imagine another apparent native speaker having never come across it or heard it out loud before to say it like that, which completely lacks common sense, speaking of shooting from the hip and making things up as we go along. Since people in the US have little understanding about English or the culture there, while purporting to speak in our language and as a fellow, but aghast historian, here are the first few paragraphs about it in wikipedia. Said like "Norrich", obviously, to make it easier to pronounce, English is not a phonetic language and never was, you never say words phonetically and look for clues in the pronunciation in the spelling, since we don't use accents or other marks to denote diphthongs and the like. ""Norwich (/ˈnɒrɪdʒ, -ɪtʃ/ i) is a cathedral city and district of the English county of Norfolk, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about 100 mi (160 km) north-east of London, 40 mi (64 km) north of Ipswich and 65 mi (105 km) east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with one of the country's largest medieval cathedrals, it is the largest settlement and has the largest urban area in East Anglia. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019.[4] The wider built-up area had a population of 213,166 in 2019.[2] Heritage and status Norwich claims to be the most complete medieval city in the United Kingdom.[5] It includes cobbled streets such as Elm Hill, Timber Hill and Tombland; ancient buildings such as St Andrew's Hall; half-timbered houses such as Dragon Hall, The Guildhall and Strangers' Hall; the Art Nouveau of the 1899 Royal Arcade; many medieval lanes; and the winding River Wensum that flows through the city centre towards Norwich Castle.[5] In May 2012, Norwich was designated England's first UNESCO City of Literature.[6] One of the UK's popular tourist destinations, it was voted by The Guardian in 2016 as the "happiest city to work in the UK"[7] and in 2013 as one of the best small cities in the world by The Times Good University Guide.[8] In 2018, 2019 and 2020, Norwich was voted one of the "Best Places To Live" in the UK by The Sunday Times."" Even when resettled by the Anglo Saxon invaders, it still predates Empress Irene as a name and place, but we can safely assume that the castle was built after the Norman invasion, about 2 centuries down the turnpike. ""The Anglo-Saxons settled the site of the modern city sometime between the 5th and 7th centuries,[12] founding the towns of Northwic ("North Farm"), from which Norwich takes its name,[13] and Westwic (at Norwich-over-the-Water) and a lesser settlement at Thorpe. Norwich became settled as a town in the 10th century and then became a prominent centre of East Anglian trade and commerce."" So we have to assume despite the bizarre pronunciation that you meant John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, the historian, sort of John Cooper of Norwich, but he's the Viscount of Norwich. I honestly can't believe what possessed you to think anyone would say it like "Norwick".

I came here after arab abbaseds and byzintan war nephcors vs haron alrashid

Where i can find the pic you use at 26:38

I thought she only had one leg

Who told you that medieval women in charge is biased? Woman of common blood Joan of Arc lead armies and become saint - because she was saint, on the other hand if you blinded own son to seat his throne - even if you man, or male dog, or female dog - no matter because there wasn't such maniacs in all history of mankind, it is literally most disgusting creature in history, and I challenge you to name other creature, dog, human, male, female who make worse. Ivan the Terrible? No, he struck in rage his son, not conspired in order to blind. So question "is irene worst human in history, or may be 2-5 humans even worse" what bias you speak? Bias for that animal

1: Well, maybe Irene was "corrupted by power"? It's an old narrative but maybe not so untrue. She held the power long enough to wanting to maintain it. And that's not too absurd, because people can do too much to obtain power. Men fought hard to achieve the imperator, king or other position when they should have stayed really quiet, like during the Crisis of the Third Century, for example. 2: Are you asking people to not discuss minor things, especially grammar (basiles/basilissa)?! Are you even on the internet, Thersites?! What more do we do here? 3: Or, if you didn't have money in ancient times, you debased your currency and start a whole trend of super high inflation! 4: Pope Leo IV crowning Charlemagne as "Emperor of the Romans" looks like more a spit on the eye than a political statement per se, for his part. For Charlemagne, it would be a political statement. But medieval political culture was very different, I guess.

Irene the byzantine Medea

And they say that women never had rights and were oppressed by the patriatchy

25:49 dude she sounds very competent, the iconoclasts were extremists, her son was incompetent. And you know take Charlemagne, no daughters married, lots of sons, the only engagement clearly spells out trouble. Like it seems clear that with a woman leader on one end and a big-shot at the other , that engagement is a red flag, he clearly seems like he wants to absorb Byzantium in to his empire and the beast way to do so is to turn the kid in to a puppet and shift the kids focus on to iconoclasm.

She proclaimed Charlemagne as “”king of the Romans”” despite the “”HRE”” being G*rman, However when it came to religion she was incredibly competent, and called upon The Second Imperial Council Of Nicaea and rightfully condemned iconoclasm as heresy, And began the triumph of Orthodoxy. The One True Faith flourished under her rule, however she was better at religious duties than as an Emperor. Despite this, She was much better than her cruel and heretical predecessor.

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35:04 Forgive me this immature joke but you're telling me Irene became a... LESBIAN!?

What If Irene was a competent ruler?what if she actually knew how to invigorate the economy, to gain loyalty from the military, to build school/universities to boost learning even among the lower classes and generally improve life conditions within the empire itself? would she still had been ousted? or would she had forcefully married off to someone from the aristocracy and put her aside as just a consort?i am more and more fascinated with female rulers during the Middle Ages, Theodora and Irene showed it could had happened. and what if Anna Komnena had her wish and proclaimed empress? along with her husband, of course. Fascinating character. thx for the video

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Sounds wack

So many historical mistakes in this video.

She's a lot like Hillary Clinton

Girlboss gaslight gatekeep sorry about your eyeballs son

Interesting person, terrible ruler

She gets a bad rap from a world dominated by chauvinism. Her son was incompetent. Its quite possible that she did not order his blinding. However, it is a western misconception that she is a saint.. Theodore the Studite wrote a praising letter] to Irene because of her work in supporting icons. This letter became the beginning of the misconception that Irene is considered a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Though this claim is not supported by the Menaion, the "Lives of Saints" by Nikodemos the Hagiorite, or any other related book of the Orthodox Church, some Western sources still cite Irene as a saint of the Orthodox Church, based on the writings of the Bollandists.