Prokopia

Prokopia (Greek: Προκοπία; c. 770 – after 813) was the empress consort of Michael I Rhangabe of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Their leader was Prokopia's father Nikephoros, the finance minister (logothetēs tou genikou).

On 31 October 802, Nikephoros was declared to be the next emperor, making Prokopia a member of the imperial family.

Members of the imperial guard had managed to transfer him to Adrianople but he never fully recovered.

Unable to face this opposition in his condition, Staurakios declared his brother-in-law as his designated heir and abdicated at the same time.

Michael generously distributed money to the army, the bureaucracy, and the Church in an effort to establish himself.

Whatever support Michael and Prokopia had managed to gain did not long survive the military defeat.

[7] While Michael and his sons were exiled to the Princes' Islands, Prokopia moved to a private monastery which appears to have been constructed earlier in Constantinople according to her orders.

A hagiography cites that Paul of Xeropotamou (born Procopius), who also became a saint of the Orthodox Church, was another son.