Eudokia Baïana

Detail of the mosaic of the Imperial Gate of Santa Sofia. Kneeling is the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise, her husband Eudokia Baïana (; died 12 April 901) was a Byzantine empress consort as the third wife of Leo VI the Wise.

Biography The work Theophanes Continuatus was a continuation of the chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor by other writers, active during the reign of Constantine VII. The work records the few details known about Eudokia Baïana.

According to Theophanes, Eudokia came from the Opsician Theme. In the spring of the year 900 she married Leo VI, whose previous two wives had predeceased him. Leo's only surviving child was a daughter, and he hoped that the new marriage would produce a son and secure his succession. As noted by George Alexandrovič Ostrogorsky, a third marriage was technically against both Byzantine law and the practices of the contemporary Eastern Orthodox Church. De Ceremoniis gives her burial place as the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. Theophanes says that the child was stillborn and unnamed. However, De Ceremoniis lists a boy called Basil among the children of Leo VI, which might indicate that Eudokia's son survived long enough to be named.