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Birth:          ABT 1020 
Death:          BEF 1118 

Notes
d as a nun named Xene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_of_Bulgaria
Maria of Bulgaria (d. after 1081), protovestiaria, was the wife of protovestiarios and 
domestikos ton scholon Andronikos Doukas and mother of Irene Doukaina.
Life[edit]

Maria was a daughter of Troian of Bulgaria by an unnamed Byzantine noblewoman 
descended from the families of Kontostephanos and Phokas, and a granddaughter of 
Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria.

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.

Family[edit]

Maria of Bulgaria and Andronikos Doukas had five children:
Michael Doukas
John Doukas
Irene Doukaina, who married Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
Anna Doukaina, who married George Palaiologos
Theodora Doukaina, a nun

Parents
OF WEST BULGARIA Troianos (Trajan) (ABT  980 - )
____ Kontostephane (ABT  980 - )

Siblings
OF WEST BULGARIA Maria (ABT 1020 - BEF 1118)

Marriage To DOUKAS Andronikos (BEF 1020 - 14 Oct 1077)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DOUKAS Ionnes (John) (ABT 1000 - ABT 1088)
PEGONITISSA Eirene (ABT 1000 - ABT 1060)

Children by DOUKAS Andronikos BEF 1020 - 14 Oct 1077
DOUKAS Michael (ABT 1061 - ABT 1108)
DOUKAINA Eirene (Irene) "Augusta" (1066 - 19 Feb 1127)

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