Epiphania is the name of several places and people. It is the feminine form of the name Epiphanius. Epiphanius (clearly manifested) was the name of several early Christian scholars and ecclesiastics: Epiphanius of Salamis, bishop of Salamis in Cyprus, died 410, author of Panarion Epiphanius of Constantinople, died 535, Patriarch of Constantinople 520—535 Epiphanius Scholasticus, known only as the assistant of Cassiodorus who compiled the Historiae...
Epiphania may also refer to the Christian festival of Epiphany.
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Epiphania was born to Heraclius and his first wife Fabia (who took the imperial name Eudocia) in the suburban palace of Hieria on 7 July 611, nine months after their marriage.
Her name of Epiphania was clearly given in honour of her paternal grandmother, who had been in Constantinople at the time of her son's coup and had been imprisoned by Phocas in the monastery 'New Repentance' prior to Heraclius' take-over.
Accordingly Epiphania was crowned Augusta under the name of Eudocia (presumably in memory of her mother) on 4 October of that year at the tender age of 15 months.
Apparently in preparation for his coup d' état she was present in Constantinople, together with Heraclius' mother Epiphania, as Heraclius waited near the capital with his army in late September or early October 610.
Her first child, Epiphania, was born on 7 July 611 in the suburban palace of Hiereia, on the Asiatic shore south of Chalcedon.
Epiphania was followed by a son, Heraclius Constantine, after an interval of only 10 months.
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