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Marija of Bulgaria


Preferred Parents:
Father: Samuel of Bulgaria , b. 948 in Of Ohrid, Makedonija, Yugoslavia   d. 12 OCT 1014 in Prilep, Makedonija, Yugoslavia
Mother: Kosara Agatha Chriselios, b. ABT 950 in Durres, Durres, Albania   d. 1010

Family 1: Tsar Ivan Vladislav,    b. 966 in Ohrid, Makedonija, Bulgaria    d. February 1018, killed under the walls of the city when he besieged it in Durrës, Durrës, Albania
  1. Alusian Cometopuli of Bulgaria, b. um 1000 in Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria     d. AFT 1068 in Yugoslavia
  2. Troian of Bulgaria , b. ABT 990 in Ohrid, Montana Province, Bulgaria     d. 19 MAY 1038 in Constantinople, Byzantium Empire, Turkey
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  1. Title: Foundation for Medieval Geneaology: MARIJA, daughter of --- (-after [1029/31])
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BULGARIA.htm#_ftnref170;
    Note: IVAN VLADISLAV, son of AARON [Kometopoulos] & his wife --- (-killed in battle Durazzo Feb 1018). Zonaras records that "fratrem Aaronem cum omni familia" was killed by Samuil, with the exception of "uno…filio…Joannes Sphandosthlavus." Lupus Protospatarius records that "Samuel rex" died in 1015 and was succeeded by his son, who was killed in 1016 by "suo consobrino filio Aronis" who reigned in his place. Zonaras records that "Gabrielem filium, qui et Romanus dicebatur" succeeded Samuil in "principatu Bulgarorum" but one year later was killed by "frater patruelis, Aaronis filius Uladisthlavus Joannis." Cedrenus records that "filius Gabrielus qui et Romanus dicebatur" succeeded Samuil but was poisoned by "Joanne, qui et Bladisthlabus, filio Aaronis" after ruling for one year. He succeeded in 1015 as IVAN VLADISLAV Tsar of the Bulgarians. He reconquered Duklja in 1016 after murdering Knez Ivan Vladimir. Cedrenus records that "Thessalonicensium duce Constantino Diogene" defeated "Joannis et eius patruelem" 9 Jan "indictione 15" and that Ivan was killed while attempting to recapture Durazzo. Cedrenus records that "frater et filius…Cracræ" delivered Adrianople to Emperor Basileios and that they and "Cracram" were created patrikios, that "Dragomuzus" yielded "Strumpitzam" and was made patrikios, and that "Bogdanus interiorum castellorum dominus" submitted and was also created patrikios, while "Davidum patricium Arianitum" left "Scopia" and retired to "castella Stypeium et Prosacum," and that the emperor appointed "Nicephoro patricio Pegonita" as governor of Durazzo. The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa records that “en l’année 460 [19 Mar 1011/17 Mar 1012]” Emperor Basileios II defeated the Bulgarians and poisoned “le vaillant Alusianus, leur souverain” and took his wife and children to Constantinople[168], which would appear to refer more probably to the death of Tsar Ivan Vladislav than to his son Alusian. Cedrenus records that Emperor Basileios entered "Ionium…apud Eilisson castellum…caput…totius Bulgariæ", appointed "Eustathium patricium Daphnomelum" as governor, and received the submission of "Joannis Bladisthlabi viduam cum filiis tribus et sex filiabus et duas filias Radomeri, filii Samueli, ac filios quinque" (of whom one had been blinded by "Joanne"). Bulgaria was divided into three themes. m MARIJA, daughter of --- (-after [1029/31]). Zonaras names "Maria…Joannis Uladisthlavi uxor" and adds that the couple had three sons and six daughters. Cedrenus records that "Joannis Bladisthlabi viduam cum filiis tribus et sex filiabus…" submitted to Emperor Basileios II (in 1018), adding that the couple had three other sons, of whom two had escaped "in montem Tmuroum." Cedrenus records that "Mariam Joannis quondam uxorem" was sent to Constantinople "cum filiis suis" with gifts. She settled in Constantinople where she adopted the name ZOE and became patrikia in 1019. Cedrenus records that "Prusianus Bulgarus magister…mater eius" was exiled by Emperor Romanos Argyros, dated to [1029/31]. Ivan Vladislav & his wife had [twelve] children:
  2. Title: History of the Bulgarian State during the Middle Ages: Maria
    Publication: Name: http://www.promacedonia.org/vz1b/vz1b_6_4.html;
    Note: ...what was the fate of his legitimate king Presian, or Fruzhin, the son and heir of Ivan-Vladislav? He was the victim of the intrigues of Byzantine politics, where he opened his father in Bulgaria. The political debauchery that the Byzantine Emperor sowed and brought into the upper Bulgarian spheres did not delay to show his results. Immediately after the death of Ivan-Vladislav, the Byzantine party in Bulgaria stood out with the greatest strength and multitude. Among the Bulgarian boyars, such were the most, and most of them wretched the long wars, and who, under the influence and power of Byzantine gold and of the promise of the Emperor, had been in ties and agreements with Basil II. They now decided for their personal gains to buy peace with Byzantium, sacrificing the independence of their homeland. The number of such boyars was also mentioned, killed in 1015 by Theodor kavhan, and for the moment it is explicitly mentioned the name of Bogdan, voivoda, "the top of the inner fortresses", for whom Skilica says that "he has long belonged to the emperor's party and even killed his father-in-law." The queen Maria, the wife of Ivan-Vladislav, joined the party, headed by the Archbishop David, the chief priest of the Bulgarian Church. Against this repressive party came another smaller, national one we would call it, which strictly adhered to King Samuel's policy and was excited by his ideas and principles. The head of this party was the determined and brave voivode Ivac and the former Samuilov voivoda Niculitsa. The legal heir of the Presian or Frujin was joined to them. However, the conscious patriotism of the few members of this party proved to be unequal and unable to fight the political corruption, 62. See. herein above, pp. 714-716. 63. Skyl.-Cedr ., Ibid., P. 467 21-23 : (Local Voivode - Governor) V. Proki , ibid., P. 33, No. 39. 732 most Bulgarian boyars. Therefore, after the death of Ivan-Vladislav general consensus and unanimity in state affairs was most needed, partisan struggles took place in Bulgaria: one party wanted to voluntarily obey the emperor and the other insisted on continuing to fight it to the end. And unfortunately in this struggle prevailed the first. "And they wrote the Bulgarian voivodes, wrote Yahya, to Emperor Basil, humiliating before him and voicing their desire to accept the strongholds and districts in their hands, and begged him to allow them to come to him and act according to his commandments." Indeed, Vasilius II did not delay to fulfill the wish of the Bulgarian voivodes. "When the Emperor of the Dracula strategist Patrizia Nikita Pigonit told the Emperor of the Dragon's strategist about the death of Ivan [Vladislav], Skilica says, the emperor immediately set off" from Constantinople, as we pointed out, in March 1018 to see finally attained the ultimate goal of its long-standing wars - the destruction of the Bulgarian state and the conquest of the Bulgarian people under the rule of the Roman Emperor. One day Basil II arrived in Edirne, and the brother and son of the famous voivode Krakra, the brave defender of the fortress of Pernik, who "wore him, wrote Skilitsa, the gospel that the famous Pernik fortress and other thirty-five transmit ". The Emperor, accepting them worthy and honorable, and Krakra himself raised a patrician who had come to Mosynopolis. Here also messengers arrived from Pelagonia, Morobrod and Lippil, who betrayed these cities. 64. Baron Rosen , ibid., Pp. 594-8. 65. Skyl.-Cedr ., Ibid ., II, pp. 4b7 2-4 . 66. The district name is used here. city, because here we are talking about cities, not about areas. 67. - Episcopal headquarters at the Bregalnitsa River, south of the town of Kochane, at the skirts of Plachkovitsa at the present village of Morotvs or Morozdza, where the monks are located. See BZ, II, S. 43. W. Tomaschek , Idr s , ibid., P. 367 (85). J. Ivanov , Northern Macedonia, p. 76 et seq. 68. and , Rom. Ulpiana - the town of Liplen on the Kosovo field at the village of the same name. 69. Ibid., P. 467 4-11 . 733 From there, the emperor came to Ser, where Krakra himself presented himself with the voivods of the 35 voluntarily betrayed castles and were all well accepted. There was also the straitjudic Dragomayev, who had carried with him a captive since Samuel in 1004 the Solomon's strategist, Ivan Halda, who after his long prison was now released; Dragomyeh betrayed Strumica, for which he was honored with a san patrician. From St. Basil II he headed to Strumica. When he stepped on Bulgarian territory and was already approaching the city, the Bulgarian Archbishop David arrived with a letter from the queen-widow Maria, the wife of Ivan-Vladislav, in which she promised the Emperor to give up Bulgaria if he fulfilled what she want; there he was greeted by the above-mentioned voivode-governor Bogdan, who, for his earlier devotion to the emperor, was also raised in a patrician san. Apparently there, before the doors of Strumica, and then the full capitulation of the Bulgarian government, the formal handover of Bulgaria to the hands of Basil II, which, judging by the words of the latter, was what the god gave him [party under contract], was carried out under certain conditions in which Queen Maria's personal requests came into being. What these demands were, Skilitsa does not state; however, taking into account, on the one hand, the good manners of the emperor both to the queen and to the other members of the Bulgarian royal family, and, on the other hand, the later accommodation of the latter in the empire can be accepted with great precision, that in these demands it was not only about securing the life of the queen and all members of the royal family, but of their future position in imperial- 70. For this strategist, supra, pp. 688 and 43. 71. Ibidem, p. 467 11-17 . 72. Skyl.-Cedr ., Ibid. p. 467 : 17-23 : In what sense is the last sentence to be understood, shows the text of Zonaras , who has greatly kept the account of the procession of Basil II, ibid., P. 123 10-14 : 73. See. his second certificate from 1020 B.Z, II, S. 44. 734 the country; in other words, the queen wanted that Basil II should not treat them as slaves, but because they voluntarily obeyed him, honoring them with due respect and securing their future existence. The Emperor obviously accepted both the conditions for surrender and those requests and continued his victorious procession in the Bulgarian cities. Stroumitsa Basil II come in Skopje, where it met with "young Niculitzes which led the first and most brave Samuilov detachment and was honored by san Protospatharius and Strategies." Having left Patriarch David Arrianit, Patriot of Bulgaria, in this city as patriarch, he returned to Shtip and Prosek in today's Demarkaia of the river Vardar, everywhere honored and glorified with exclamations and songs, and from there turning to the right , arrived in Ohrid and there he camped. Basil II entered officially in the Bulgarian capital, because "all the people welcomed him, saying Skilitsa with songs, applause and praise." "The town of Ohrid, located on two high hill near the large lake from which the river. Drin gets springs and flows to the north and then back to the west and flows into the Ionian Sea in the fortress or salts is the main city of the whole of Bulgaria; the palaces of the Bulgarian kings rose there, and their treasures were kept in a treasury. The Emperor opened it and found there a lot of money, crowns with pearls, gold-plated clothes, and 100 cent gold-forged gold-all of which he gave as a salary to the army that was with him." In Ohrid Basil II appointed Patriarch Eustatius 74. Probably the son of the old Samuilov voivoda Nikulitsa, the defender of Servia. See supra, pages 628 and 680-681. 75. C. Proki , ibid., P. 33. § 40. 76. Skyl.—Cedr., ibid., II, p. 46722—4685. 77. This description is according to the text of the Bonn Edition. However, in some transcripts it is transmitted more fully, as in cod. Coislinianus 135 and Viennese 35 and 74. Here we read, according to the supplements in Bonn, the following: "Ohrid is situated on two high hills too close to the great lake, time Diasarit. From this lake is 735 Daphnomil, and leaving him a very strong garrison, returned to his camp. There he received members of the Bulgarian royal family: "Pushed been with him the wife of Ivan Vladislav," ie: is the Queen Mary with her two sons and six daughters, bastard son of Samuel and two daughters Gavril Radomir and his five sons, of which the older one, as it was said, was blinded after the murder of his parents. The Emperor accepted the Queen mercifully and favorably, but he still commanded that she be supervised with the others. Then also Vasilius II and other Bulgarian masters presented: Nestorica, Lazarica and young Dobromir - each with his own company; they were also welcomed and honored in royal. While all this was happening in Bulgaria, the supporters hunting a huge amount of delicious fish; from it and the Drin River received its springs, coming from the more southern parts of the Devil's District, and, like Alfie [in the Peloponnese], as they say, divides the sea, springs from Aeretza [a spring in Sicily] and flows to the north, divides the said lake; at the top of the lake, after reaching the so-called local inhabitants of Strugi and joining them, he [Drin] becomes a very large river that flows northwards, then returns to the west and flows into the Ionian Sea around the fortress Ilisson" Skyl.-Cedr., Ibid., II, p. 468 6-14, and in this case B. Proki, there, pp. 33, 41, 42 and 43. 78. According Kedrin (p. 468 17-18 ) and Zonara (p. 123 15 ) Ivan Vladislav had six children, including three at the time were his mother, and the other three were located (see. Below) in the mountain. However, in the supplements of the Viennese prescription of Skilitsa № 74, five names were named Presian, Alusian, Aron, Trajan and ....
  3. Title: Wikiwand: Zoste patrikia
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Zoste_patrikia;
    Note: Zōstē patrikía (Greek: ζωστὴ πατρικία) was a Byzantine court title reserved exclusively for the woman who was the chief attendant and assistant to the Empress. A very high title, its holder ranked as the first woman after the Empress herself in the imperial court. The title is attested from the 9th century until the 12th century, but only a handful of its holders are known. History and functions The title means "girded lady-patrician," often translated into English as "Mistress of the Robes," and was used for high-ranking court ladies who were attached to the Byzantine empresses as their ladies of honour. Its origin or date of institution are unclear. Disregarding a clearly anachronistic reference to Antonina, the wife of the great 6th-century general Belisarius, as being a zostē patrikia, the title is first attested inc. 830 for Theoktiste, the mother of Empress Theodora. The title is last attested in literary sources (the Skylitzes Chronicle) in 1018, when it was conferred to Maria, the former Empress of Bulgaria, and finally in a series of lead seals dated to the late 11th century (see below). It disappears thereafter, along with many other titles of the middle Byzantine period, following the reforms of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118). In Philotheos's Klētorologion of 899, the dignity of the zostē patrikia is placed very high in the imperial order of precedence, coming before the magistros and after the kouropalatēs. Her exceptional status is further illustrated by the fact that she was one of only six dignitaries who dined at the imperial table—along with the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Caesar, the nōbelissimos, the kouropalatēs and the basileopatōr—and by the prominent role she played in imperial ceremonies, especially those revolving around the Empress, such as the coronation of an empress or the birth of a child. The zōstē patrikia functioned as the chief attendant to the empress (to whom she was usually related) and the head of the women's court (the sekreton tōn gynaikōn), which consisted mostly of the wives of high-ranking officials. Indeed, hers was the only specifically female dignity: other women bore the feminine versions of their husbands' titles. A zōstē patrikia is therefore, in John B. Bury's words, "the only lady who was πατρικία in her own right," and not to be confused with a simple patrikia, who was the spouse or widow of a patrikios. The French scholar Rodolphe Guilland points out that the title itself appears to be a compound one, with the sources sometimes calling it "the zōstē and patrikia," indicating that the noble title of patrikia was added to the court dignity of zōstē. Although it appears that, in common with the other supreme dignities with which it is associated, there was a single holder of the dignity at each time, at the reception of Olga of Kiev, the plural form zōstai is used, indicating the presence of at least two. This may be accounted for by the fact that at times there were several empresses, and that each one must have had a zōstē in her particular service. The zōstē was raised to the rank in an elaborate investiture ceremony in the Theotokos of the Pharos palace chapel, which is recorded in the De Ceremoniis (I.50) of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (r. 913–959). The ceremony ended in the Chrysotriklinos audience hall, where she received from the emperor's hands the ivory tablets that were the particular insignium of her office. She then visited the Hagia Sophia, where the tablets were blessed by the Patriarch, before making her way to the Magnaura, where she received the congratulations of the women of the court and the spouses of the high dignitaries. Finally, she returned to the Pharos chapel, where she deposited an offering of 70 nomismata, before retiring to her apartments. Her distinctive dress, however, which probably gave the zōstē her name, was the broad belt or loros that she put on at the investiture ceremony. A descendant of the ancient Roman consular trabea, the golden lōros was the "most prestigious imperial insignium," and was also worn by the Byzantine emperor and a select few of his highest dignitaries such as the Eparch of Constantinople or the magistroi. A less likely origin of the zōstē may derive from her position as chief lady-in-waiting to the empress, among whose duties was to supervise her dress, or, as the Patria of Constantinople puts it, to "gird" the empress. The zōstē held her title for life, even after the death of an empress she had been appointed to serve. In addition, like most Byzantine titles, the dignity could be conferred as a simple honour without the requirement of service, as was most likely the case with Theoktiste and Maria, the widow of Tsar Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria. List of known holders Despite the prominence of their title, the sources mention but rarely the zōstai. As Rodolphe Guilland writes, "confined to the women's quarters of the empress, they hardly had the opportunity to become known. Certainly the women's quarters were sometimes a hotbed of intrigue and scandal; but the noise of these intrigues and these scandals hardly crossed the walls of the Great Palace." Antonina, wife of Belisarius (anachronistic reference from the Patria of Constantinople). Theoktiste, mother of Empress Theodora, the wife of Emperor Theophilos (r. 829–842). Anastasia, known only through a single reference in the late 10th-century Life of Basil the Younger hagiography. She might be identifiable with Anastaso, the daughter of the patrikios Adralestos, who later married into the Maleinos family and was mother to Constantine Maleinos and Michael Maleinos. Olga of Kiev is sometimes considered as having been created a zōstē during her visit to Constantinople Miroslava of Bulgaria, daughter of Emperor Samuel of Bulgaria (r. 997–1014), who defected to Byzantium along with her husband, Ashot Taronites. Empress Maria, wife of Emperor Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria (r. 1015–1018). She was conferred the title after she fled to the Byzantine court following the murder of her husband. Khousousa, wife of Seneqerim-Hovhannes, last ruler of the Kingdom of Vaspurakan prior to the Byzantine annexation of his realm in 1022. She is known through a seal mentioning her as "zōstē and mother of David the magistros." Irene, attested only through an 11th-century seal which describes her as a nun. Maria Melissene, attested in a seal dated to c. 1060–1070. It has been suggested that she might be the mother of Nikephoros Melissenos, the brother-in-law of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Anna Radene, a close friend of Michael Psellos, probably c. 1070. Helena Tornikine, "zōstē and kouropalatissa", attested in a seal dated to c. 1070–1110.
  4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Царица Болгарская Мария - birth: 0972; Bulgaria
    Author: 13143.GED, Not Given
    Note: birth: 0972; Bulgaria Source Media Type: Other Source Media Type: Other
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222793
  5. Title: rootsweb > Famille Pinsonnault: Agatha CHRYSELIA
    Publication: Name: https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pinsonnault&id=I69822;
    Note: ID: I69822 Name: Agatha CHRYSELIA Surname: Chryselia Given Name: Agatha Sex: F Birth: c. 950 _UID: 1FBC87B93C540B49AEF6925FCEDFA8978053 Change Date: 28 Mar 2008 at 11:17:56 Marriage 1 Samuel Kometopulida BULGARIE b: ABT 0945 in Macedonia Children Has Children Marija de BULGARIE b: c. 972 in Ohrid, Macédoine, Bulgarie
  6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Царица Болгарская Мария -
    Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
  7. Title: Wikiwand: Maria (wife of Ivan Vladislav)
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Maria_(wife_of_Ivan_Vladislav);
    Note: Maria (Bulgarian: Мария) was the last empress consort (tsaritsa) of the First Bulgarian Empire. She was the wife of Tsar Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria Life It is believed that Maria was married to Ivan Vladislav in the late 10th century. Her husband was the son of Aron, who was the brother of Emperor Samuel (Samuil) of Bulgaria. In 987 Samuel ordered his brother Aron executed for treason together with his entire family. The massacre was survived only by Ivan Vladislav, who was saved through the intercession of his cousin, Samuel's son Gabriel Radomir. Tsar Samuil died in 1014 and the Bulgarian throne was inherited by his son Gavril Radomir. In 1015 Ivan Vladislav avenged the deaths of his innocent siblings by murdering his savior Gavrail Radomir, while the latter was hunting near Ostrovo (Arnissa), and seized the Bulgarian throne. Maria's husband followed the determined policy of his predecessors to resist the ongoing Byzantine conquest over Bulgaria, but he was killed before the walls of Dyrrhachium in the winter of 1018. After his death the widowed empress Maria and much of the Bulgarian nobility and court submitted to the advancing Basil II and negotiated guarantees for the preservation of their lives, status, and property. Maria together with her children were sent to Constantinople, where she adopted the name Zoe and was granted the title zostē patrikia (lady-in-waiting to the Empress) in 1019. Her family was integrated into the Byzantine court and inter-married with some of the most prominent Byzantine noble families. In 1029 Maria together with her son Presian entered a conspiracy against emperor Romanos III Argyros. The plot was discovered, Presian was blinded and Maria was exiled to a monastery in Asia Minor. Origins No primary source mentions the ancestry of Maria, but Christian Settipani has noted the possibility that she may be the daughter of Tsar Boris II of Bulgaria and a Byzantine noblewoman. Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Tsar Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria (renamed Eirene) Lekapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos of Byzantium. Boris resided in Constantinople twice, initially as a hostage and then as a royal captive of Emperor John I Tzimiskes, when the emperor divested Boris II of his royal title and compensated him with the rank of a Byzantine magistros. During his sojourn in Constantinople Boris II had a relationship with an unknown woman by whom he left several children. Settipani believes that one of these children may have been Maria since: A union between the Krum and Kometopoulos dynasties is suggested by the later claim of Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria that Tsars Peter I (father of Boris II) and Samuel of Bulgaria, were his ancestors; a claim which was investigated and confirmed by Pope Innocent III. One of the sons of Ivan Vladislav and Maria was named Presian / Prousianos (briefly Tsar of Bulgaria in 1018), which was also the name of the great-grandfather of Tsar Peter I, suggesting that the blood of the Krum dynasty had been transmitted to the children of the couple. A Bulgarian priest, Paisij de Chilendar, identifies Maria as "a Greek woman, daughter of a magistros," the title of Boris II in Constantinople, although Settipani notes that the reliability of this late source is unclear. Maria led the negotiations to submit to Byzantine sovereignty following the death of her husband whilst he was besieging Dyrrhachium, suggesting that she possessed the requisite status and prestige, both for the Bulgarians and the Byzantines, to do so. Her hypothetical descent from Emperor Romanos I of Byzantium via her grandmother, Maria Lekapena, wife of Tsar Peter I, would explain her authority in the eyes of her former enemies as well as the lenient terms of the Bulgarian surrender. The honourable treatment which she and her family subsequently received in Constantinople, the allocation of prestigious titles to both her and her children, and the eminent marriages her descendants concluded within the Byzantine high nobility despite the enmity between her husband and Byzantium, all suggest that she was of very high descent and held in high regard by the Byzantines. Settipani notes that the various indications given above support the hypothesis, in the absence of any primary sources that could offer greater certainty, that she may have been a daughter of Tsar Boris II and therefore also a granddaughter of Maria Lekapena of Byzantium. Family Maria and Ivan Vladislav had several children, including: Presian, who briefly succeeded as emperor of Bulgaria 1018, later Byzantine magistros Aron, Byzantine general Alusian, who was briefly emperor of Bulgaria in 1041 Trayan / Troianus, father of Maria of Bulgaria, who married Andronikos Doukas. Catherine (Ekaterina), who married the future Byzantine Emperor Isaac I Komnenos Ancestors Maria Ivan Vladislav (1015–1018) Alusian stratēgos Aron stratēgos Radomir Catherine wife of Isaac I Komnenos Presian stratēgos Trayan unknown son 5 daughters [Anna] wife of Romanos IV Diogenes Basil stratēgos Theodore stratēgos Maria wife of Andronikos Doukas Manuel Komnenos Maria Komnene Samuil vestētōr Radomir proedros Constantine married Theodora, sister of Alexios I Aron Theodore Irene Doukaina wife of Alexios I Theodora Doukaina John Doukas governor of Bulgaria (1090–1092) Maria (Anna) Doukaina wife of George Palaiologos Michael Doukas prōtostratōr Sources Златарски, Васил, История на българската държава през средните векове, Том I. История на Първото българско царство. Част II. От славянизацията на държавата до падането на Първото царство (852—1018). 4.Приемниците на цар Самуил и покорението на България от Василий II Българоубиец. Cheynet, Jean-Claude, Pouvoir et Contestations a Byzance (963-1210), Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996. Norwich, John Julius, Byzantium: The Apogee, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, ISBN 0-394-53779-3 Runciman, Steven, The First Bulgarian Empire. 1930. Skylitzes, Synopsis Historiarum. Settipani, Christian, Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs. Les princes caucasiens et l'Empire du VIe au IXe siècle, Paris: De Boccard, 2006. ^ Norwich 1992, p. 262. ^ a b "BULGARIA". fmg.ac. Retrieved 2016-05-09. ^ Cheynet 1996, pp. 41-42. ^ Settipani 2006, pp.282-283. ^ Settipani 2006, p. 282-283. ^ a b c d Settipani 2006, p. 283. ^ Settipani 2006, p. 282, note 2; as cited by N. Adontz. ^ Златарски, История. Приложение 19
  8. Title: FabPedigree: Marija (Princess) of BULGARIA
    Publication: Name: https://fabpedigree.com/s041/f140389.htm;
    Note: Marija (Princess) of BULGARIA of BYZANTIUM Born: abt. 972 HM George I's 19-Great Grandmother. HRE Ferdinand I's 15-Great Grandmother. U.S. President [WASHINGTON]'s 23-Great Grandmother. PM Churchill's 28-Great Grandmother. HM Margrethe II's 26-Great Grandmother. Wm. von Bismarck's 24-Great Grandmother. Poss. Agnes Harris's 23-Great Aunt. `Osawatomie' Brown's 32-Great Grandmother. poss. Husbands/Partners: Ivan Vladislav COMITOPULI (TSAR) of BULGARIA ; Samuel Children: Troianos (Trojan) (TSAR) of WEST BULGARIA ; Ekaterina (Princess) of BULGARIA _______ _______ _______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ _____ ____ ____ / -- Telerig of the BULGARS + ==&=> [ 255 ,,XQD,&] / -- Kardam (KHAN) of the BULGARS / -- Krum (8th KHAN) of the BULGARS / -- Omortag (9th KHAN) of the BULGARS / | (skip this generation?) / -- Zvinica (Prince) of the BULGARS (? - by 831) / -- Presjan I (TSAR) of the BULGARS (? - 853?) / | OR: Enrovota of BULGARIA + ==&=> [ 255 ,,XQD,&] / -- Boris Michael (KHAN) of BULGARIA (848? - 907) / | or: Simeon Knez (q.v., Boris' son) / -- Nikola Kumet of BULGARIA (905? - 963+) | \ | OR: poss. Ivan Nikola Kumet of SRDETS [alt ped] + ==&=> [ 255 ,,XQD,&] / \ -- Marija / -- Samuel COMITOPULI of MACEDONIA (959? - 1014) | \ / -- Smbat BAGRATUNI of ARMENIA + ==&=> [ 245 ,,XQD,&] | | / -- Ashot (Asjot) IV (Prince/Governor) of ARMENIA | | / \ -- Dzoyk (Dzovik) MAMIKONA + ==&=> [ 206 ,,QD,&] | | / -- Smbat VIII (III) BAGRATUNI (High Constable) of ARMENIA | | / \ -- poss. Dzoyk MAMIKONIAN + ==&=> [ 207 ,,QD,&] | | / -- Ashot V `the Great' (1st King) of ARMENIA | | | \ -- Rhipsime (Hripsime) | | / | OR: poss. Eirene MAMIKONEAN + ==&=> [ 207 ,,QD,&] | | / -- Sempad (Smbat) I (King) of ARMENIA (? - 912) | | | \ | (skip this generation?) | | / \ -- Kotramide | | / -- poss. Ashot II `the Iron' (King) of ARMENIA | | | \ | OR: prob. not Symeon (TSAR) of the BULGARS + ==&=> [ 255 ,,XQD,&] | | / \ -- poss. Rhipsime | \ -- Ripsimja of the BULGARS | \ / -- Isaac SEVADA I (Prince) of ALBANIA / \ -- poss. Maria of ALBANIA - Marija (Princess) of BULGARIA \ / -- Ionnes CHRYSELIOS (Duke) of DURRES \ -- Agatha CHRYSELIA IA Her (poss.) Great Grandchildren: Irene (Eirine) `Augusta' DOUKAINA ; Michael DOUKAS (DUKAS) ; Anna DUKAINA ; Melen PEREZ (Conde) de TOLEDO ; Suer Perez de TOLEDO
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