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Personal data Maria 

• She was born in the year 972.
• She died on November 21, 1081, she was 109 years oldBulgaria.

  Attention: Age above 100 years (109).

• This information was last updated on February 8, 2020.

Household of Maria

She is married to Ivan Владислав.

They got married in the year 991 at Macedonia, she was 19 years oldOhrid
Municipality of Ohrid Macedonia (FYROM).

Child(ren):

1. Alusian of Bulgaria  1006-1068 
2. Trayan / Troianus iš Bulgarijos  ± 990-1038 

Notes about Maria

Name Suffix: Of Bulgaria

Name Suffix: Of Bulgaria

Marija of Byzantium1
b. 972, d. 1029, #5629
Marija of Byzantium was born in 972. She married Ivan Vladislav, Tsar of Bulgaria, son of Aaron Amitopulos Kometopoulos.1,2,3 She was a "girdled Patrician" circa 990 in Constantinople, Byzanitum.1 She died in 1029 at age 57 years.3

Children of Marija of Byzantium and Ivan Vladislav, Tsar of Bulgaria:
Presian II, Tsar of Bulgaria b. c 992?, d. bt 1061 - 1061
Trajan Kometopoulos+ b. c 995, d. 1018
Ekaterina Kometopoulos+ b. c 1015

[S204] Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners: The Complete Lineage of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward III, Kings of England, and Queen Philippa (.: ., 3rd Ed., 1998), 309-35. Hereinafter cited as RfC.
[S464] "Medieval Royal Families of the Balkans" This will be a series of pieces attempting to account for the genealogy of the medieval rulers of the Balkans. There are lots of uncertainties about these lines, since many records have not survived. Source materials for most things in the medieval Balkans are ususally not from contemporary writers, and the few contemporary sources existing are usually from Byzantine writers, not writers from the various states themselves. The tables I'm about to present are based on Europaeische Stammtafeln, but modified by some recent scholarship by John V. A. Fine in his two books, "The Early Medieval Balkans" and "The Late Medieval Balkans". - PT
, Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site - Royal Families of the Balkans, online Medieval Royal Families of the Balkans, printout dated 5/9/00. Previously published in hard copy (e-mail address: Paul Theroff, 4/24/99). Hereinafter cited as "Theroff-Balkans".
[S1578] Ian S. R. Mladjov, "Reconsidering Agatha, Wife of Eadward the Exile", The Plantagenet Connection Summer/Winter (2003). Hereinafter cited as "Reconsidering Agatha".

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Maria was the wife of tsar Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria. She was the last empress-consort (tsaritsa) of the First Bulgarian Empire.

Her antecedents are unknown. 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 Ivan Vladislav, who was saved through the intercession of his cousin, Samuel's son Gabriel Radomir.

Maria and Ivan Vladislav had several children, including:

#Presian, who briefly succeeded as emperor of Bulgaria 1018
#Aron, Byzantine general
#Alusian, who was briefly emperor of Bulgaria in 1041
#Trayan. Father of Maria of Bulgaria, who married Andronikos Doukas.
#Catherine (Ekaterina), who married the future Byzantine Emperor Isaac I Komnenos
Tsar Samuil died in 1014 and the Bulgarian throne was inherited by his son Gavril Radomir. In 1015 Ivan Vladislav murrdered 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 in exchange of guarantees for the preservation of their lives, status, and property. Maria together with her children were sent to Constantinople, where she was granted the title zostē patrikia (lady-in-waiting of the empress). Her family was integrated into the Byzantine court and provincial aristocracy.

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.
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Maria was the wife of tsar Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria. She was the last empress-consort (tsaritsa) of the First Bulgarian Empire.

Her antecedents are unknown. 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 Ivan Vladislav, who was saved through the intercession of his cousin, Samuel's son Gabriel Radomir.

Maria and Ivan Vladislav had several children, including:

Presian, who briefly succeeded as emperor of Bulgaria 1018

Aron, Byzantine general

Alusian, who was briefly emperor of Bulgaria in 1041

Trayan. Father of Maria of Bulgaria, who married Andronikos Doukas.

Catherine (Ekaterina), who married the future Byzantine Emperor Isaac I Komnenos

Tsar Samuil died in 1014 and the Bulgarian throne was inherited by his son Gavril Radomir. In 1015 Ivan Vladislav murrdered 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 in exchange of guarantees for the preservation of their lives, status, and property. Maria together with her children were sent to Constantinople, where she was granted the title zostē patrikia (lady-in-waiting of the empress). Her family was integrated into the Byzantine court and provincial aristocracy.

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

fmg.ac : Zonaras names "Maria Joannis Uladisthlavi uxor" and adds that the couple had three sons and six daughters[170]. 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"[171]. Cedrenus records that "Mariam Joannis quondam uxorem" was sent to Constantinople "cum filiis suis" with gifts[172]. 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][173].

She was described as a "girdled" Patrician.

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