Maria of Bulgaria

• Preferred Name: Maria of Bulgaria ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Alternate Name: Eudoxia Princess Of The Byzantine Empire
  
• Alternate Name: Eudoxia Phokas
  
• Alternate Name: Eudoxia Princess of the Byzantine Empire
  
• Alternate Name: Eudoxia Princess Of The Byzantine Empire
  
• Alternate Name: Eudoxia Princess of Byzantine Empire
  
• Gender: F
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Princess of Bulgaria
  
• Death: AFT 21 NOV 1095 in Lake Ohrid, Byzantine Bulgaria, Byzantine Empire at LATI: N1.15 LONG: E8.75 with note: currently located in Northern Macedonia
  
• FSID: 946P-W6L
  
• Note: with note: Description: died as a nun by the name of Xene merge data
  
• Birth: in Istanbul, Türkiye at LATI: N1.0136 LONG: E8.955
  
• Death: 21 NOV 1081 in Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire at LATI: N1.15 LONG: E8.75 with note: GEDCOM Data Standard
  
• Burial: NOV 1095 in Kariye Mosque, Edirnekapı, Bayrampaşa, İstanbul, Turquia at LATI: N1.0311 LONG: E8.9392
  
• Chora+Church,+Constantinople+12th+Century+reconstruction...: with note: Description: The majority of the fabric of the current building dates from 1077–1081, when Maria Doukaina, the mother-in-law of Alexius I Comnenus, rebuilt the Chora Church as an inscribed cross or quincunx: a popular architectural style of the time. Early in the 12th century, the church suffered a partial collapse, perhaps due to an earthquake.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Maria of Bulgaria (died 21 November, after 1095), known as Maria Doukaina (Greek: Μαρία Δούκαινα) in the Byzantine sources, was the wife of protovestiarios and domestikos ton scholon Andronikos Doukas and mother of Empress Irene Doukaina.[2]
  
  Maria was a daughter of Troian of Bulgaria by an unnamed Byzantine noblewoman descended from the families of Kontostephanos and Phokas, and thus a granddaughter of Ivan Vladislav, the last ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire.[2]
  
  Maria married Andronikos Doukas well before 1066. Her husband was a son of the Caesar John Doukas, a major power player in Byzantine politics of the era, and Eirene Pelagonitissa. He was also a nephew of Constantine X and first cousin of Michael VII.
  
  Maria was endowed with an inheritance of vast land holdings around Lake Ohrid, and her considerable income was used to support her husband's lavish lifestyle and political ambitions. As the last descendants of the ruling family of Bulgaria, Maria and her daughters Irene and Anna, who married the first notable member of the Palaiologos family, carried not only immense wealth but also legitimisation of Byzantine authority over the Bulgarian population: her (and her daughters') prominent marriages are evidence for the eventual integration of the descendants of the Cometopuli dynasty into the court nobility in Constantinople. As mother of the Empress Irene Doukaina, Maria was a woman of some influence in the early years of the reign of Alexios I Komnenos, although she, as a widow, shunned the Imperial court and chose to live in her Lake Ohrid estate. Her granddaughter Anna Komnene praises her beauty and wisdom in the Alexiad.
  
  In 1077–1081, she extensively rebuilt and restored the Chora Church, to more or less its present shape.
  
  Maria of Bulgaria and Andronikos Doukas had seven children:[3]
  
  Michael Doukas[4]
  Constantine Doukas[5]
  Stephen Doukas[3]
  John Doukas[6]
  Irene Doukaina, who married Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
  Anna Doukaina, who married George Palaiologos
  Theodora Doukaina, a nun[7]
  
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  === !AKA: Maria - Doc. Line 45-27 Mary - Doc ===
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  === TITLE: Princess of Bulgaria ===
  TITLE: Princess of Bulgaria
  
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  === #Générale# Décès : après le 21 novembre ===
  #Générale# Décès : après le 21 novembre 1089 ou le 21 sept embre 1081. Nonne Eirén ée à son décès.

• m. 1053 in okhrid, Montana, Bulgaria

1. Anna Dukaina Princess Byzantine Empire, b. 1068 in Constantinople, İstanbul, Turkey     d. 1110
2. Michael Doukas Byzantine Protostrator, b. 1061 in Constantinople, Istanbul, Turkey     d. 9 JAN 1118 in Byzantium Constantinople Istanbul, Turkey
3. Eirēnē Doukaina, b. 1066 in Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire     d. 19 FEB 1133 in Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire

1. Anna Dukaina Princess Byzantine Empire, b. 1068 in Constantinople, İstanbul, Turkey     d. 1110

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Maria or Marija -
   Author: GEDCOM file imported on 11 Mar 2003.
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2. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BULGARIA.htm#MariaTroianedied10891118;
   Note: TROJAN [Troianos] (-19 May ----). His parentage is suggested by Nikephoros Bryennios who records that "uxor Andronici" was "genus a Samuele…Bulgarorum rege, e cuius filio Troianne nata ipsa erat"[190]. The primary source which confirms that he was the son of Tsar Ivan Vladislav, not Samuil, has not been identified. The list of obituaries of the monastery of Christ Philanthropos, founded by Empress Eirene Doukas, records the death 19 May of "Theodorou pappou tis ayias despoines"[191]. As the list also names the empress's paternal grandfather, this must be her maternal grandfather, indicating that he had adopted the Greek name THEODOROS. m ---, descendant of the families of Konstostephanos, Abalates and Phokas. Her ancestry is indicated by Nikephoros Bryennios who records that "uxor Andronici" (her daughter) was "materna vero ei prosapia referebatur ad Contostephanos, Aballantes et Phocadas"[192]. Trojan & his wife had one child: a) MARIA Troiane (-21 Nov [1089/1110]). Her parentage is confirmed by Nikephoros Bryennios who records that "uxor Andronici" was "genus a Samuele…Bulgarorum rege, e cuius filio Troianne nata ipsa erat", adding that "materna vero ei prosapia referebatur ad Contostephanos, Aballantes et Phocadas"[193]. The Alexeiad records that "the daughter-in-law of the Cæsar Ioannes…protovestiaria" was imprisoned "in the nunnery of Petrion near the Sidera" when the Komnenoi plot against Emperor Nikephoros Botaneiates was discovered, referring to her as "kinswoman" of Anna Dalassena and, in a later passage, stating that she "was of Bulgarian descent"[194]. Protobestiaria. She became a nun as XENE. She received a letter from Leon ex-metropolitan of Chalcedonia dated to 1089/[1094/95][195]. The typikon of Theotokos Kecharitomenes (dated to [1110]) provides for the commemoration 21 Nov of "la...princesse et mère de ma Majesté, kyra Marie, qui fut appelée...kyra Xénè"[196]. The list of obituaries of the monastery of Christ Philanthropos, founded by Empress Eirene Doukas, records the death 21 Nov of "Xenes monaxes tes metros tes ayias despoines tes protobestiarisses"[197]. m ([before 1061]) ANDRONIKOS Dukas, protobestiarios, son of IOANNES Dukas & his wife Eirene Pegonitissa (-14 Oct [1077]). Co-Emperor 1067-1070. m ([before 1061]) MARIA Troiane, daughter of TROJAN [Troianos] of Bulgaria & his wife --- (-21 Nov [1089/1110]). Her parentage is confirmed by Nikeforos Bryennios who records that "uxor Andronici" was "genus a Samuele…Bulgarorum rege, e cuius filio Troianne nata ipsa erat", adding that "materna vero ei prosapia referebatur ad Contostephanos, Aballantes et Phocadas"[551]. The Alexeiad records that "the daughter-in-law of the Cæsar Ioannes…protovestiaria" was imprisoned "in the nunnery of Petrion near the Sidera" when the Komnenoi plot against Emperor Nikeforos Botaneiates was discovered, referring to her as "kinswoman" of Anna Dalassena and, in a later passage, stating that she "was of Bulgarian descent"[552]. Proto bestiaria. She became a nun as XENE. She received a letter from Leon ex-metropolitan of Chalcedonia dated to 1089/[1094/95][553]. The typikon of Theotokos Kecharitomenes (dated to [1110]) provides for the commemoration 21 Nov of "la...princesse et mère de ma Majesté, kyra Marie, qui fut appelée...kyra Xénè"[554]. The list of obituaries of the monastery of Christ Philanthropos, founded by Empress Eirene Doukas, records the death 21 Nov of "Xenes monaxes tes metros tes ayias despoines tes protobestiarisses"[555]. Andronikos Doukas & his wife had seven children: 1. MIKHAEL Doukas (1061-9 Jan [1110] or before). 2. KONSTANTINOS Doukas (-10 Sep after 1081). 3. STEFANOS Doukas (-10 Sep after 1081). 4. EIRENE Doukaina ([1065/66]-19 Feb [1123]). 5. ANNA Doukaina (-[1110/35]). 6. IOANNES Doukas (-5 Jan [1116/1136]). 7. THEODORA Doukaina ([1070]-[20/21] Feb [1110] or before).
   
3. Title: Maria Doukaina of Bulgaria, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FK3-BVQM : 15 June 2022), Maria Doukaina of Bulgaria, ; Burial, Istanbul, , Istanbul, Turkey, Church of the Holy Saviour Chora Kariye Mosque; citing record ID 238894936, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Marija Of Bulgaria - birth: 1033; Bulgaria
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5. Title: Wikipedia - Maria_of_Bulgaria
   Author: Kouroupou, Matoula; Vannier, Jean-François (2005), "Commémoraisons des Comnènes dans le typikon liturgique du monastère du Christ Philanthrope (ms. Panaghia Kamariotissa 29)", Revue des études byzantines (in French) (63): 41–69, doi:10.3406/rebyz.2005.2305 Polemis, Demetrios I. (1968). The Doukai: A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography. London: Athlone Press.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_of_Bulgaria;
   Note: Maria of Bulgaria (died 21 November, after 1095), known as Maria Doukaina (Greek: Μαρία Δούκαινα) in the Byzantine sources, was the wife of protovestiarios and domestikos ton scholon Andronikos Doukas and mother of Empress Irene Doukaina.[2] Life Maria was a daughter of Troian of Bulgaria by an unnamed Byzantine noblewoman descended from the families of Kontostephanos and Phokas, and thus a granddaughter of Ivan Vladislav, the last ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire.[2] Maria married Andronikos Doukas well before 1066. Her husband was a son of the Caesar John Doukas, a major power player in Byzantine politics of the era, and Eirene Pelagonitissa. He was also a nephew of Constantine X and first cousin of Michael VII. Maria was endowed with an inheritance of vast land holdings around Lake Ohrid, and her considerable income was used to support her husband's lavish lifestyle and political ambitions. As the last descendants of the ruling family of Bulgaria, Maria and her daughters Irene and Anna, who married the first notable member of the Palaiologos family, carried not only immense wealth but also legitimisation of Byzantine authority over the Bulgarian population: her (and her daughters') prominent marriages are evidence for the eventual integration of the descendants of the Cometopuli dynasty into the court nobility in Constantinople. As mother of the Empress Irene Doukaina, Maria was a woman of some influence in the early years of the reign of Alexios I Komnenos, although she, as a widow, shunned the Imperial court and chose to live in her Lake Ohrid estate. Her granddaughter Anna Komnene praises her beauty and wisdom in the Alexiad. In 1077–1081, she extensively rebuilt and restored the Chora Church, to more or less its present shape. Family Maria of Bulgaria and Andronikos Doukas had seven children:[3] Michael Doukas[4] Constantine Doukas[5] Stephen Doukas[3] John Doukas[6] Irene Doukaina, who married Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Anna Doukaina, who married George Palaiologos Theodora Doukaina, a nun[7]
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Maria or Marija -
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7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Maria or Marija - birth: 1033;
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