Maria Troiane

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 45:27, Irene Angelica, daughter of Isaac II Angelus, d. 1204, Eastern Roman Emperor, son of Andronicus Angelus (m. Euphrosyne Castamonita), son of Theodora Comnena (m. Constantinus Angelus), daughter of Alexis I, Comnenus, b. 1048, d. 15 Aug 1118, Emperor of the East, who m. c 1078, Irene, daughter of Andonicus Ducas, by wife Maria, daughter of Trojan of Bulgaria, son of Samuel, d. 1014, King of Bulgaria. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Midieval Lands, Maria Troiane.
Maria Troiane's 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" [Nikephoros Bryennios Liber III, 6, p. 106].

Maria married Andronikos Doukas, son of Ioannes Doukas Emperor of Byzantine Empire and Eirene Pegonitissa. (Andronikos Doukas was born in 1045 in Byzantine and died about 14 Oct 1077.)