TEODORA, wife of TEOFILATTO. — She appears in documents with the title of vestaratrix, which she derived from her husband, pontifical vestararius between 900 and 926.
The relations between T., Teofilatto, and first Pope Sergio III and then Giovanni X were interpreted in the worst possible manner on the basis of Liutprando da Cremona, who speaks of her as a beautiful and immoral woman, who precisely for this reason exercised great political influence. Eugenio Vulgario, on the other hand, speaks of her as a pious and virtuous woman; but from Cesare Baronio onward, greater credence has been given to Liutprando—although he is known to have been notoriously inclined to obscene tales—than to Eugenio. However matters may have stood, there is no certain evidence of individual and autonomous political actions by T.