Maria Antiochiae (nata anno 1145; interfecta die 27 Augusti 1182), filia principissae Constantiae maritique eius Raimundi Pictaviensis, fuit sub nomine Xena imperatrix Byzantina, uxor altera Manuelis Comneni, qui eam in matrimonium die 25 Decembris 1161 duxit.

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Maria imperatrix

Manuel ex ea genuit filium unum:

  • Alexius, natus 1169, mortuus 1183, qui patre mortuo imperator factus est

Manuele mortuo Maria pro filio imperium direxit. Amasium Alexium protosebastum habuisse refertur.

Bibliographia

  • Lynda Garland, Byzantine empresses: women and power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 (Londinii: Routledge, 1999) pp. 199-209
  • Lynda Garland, "Morality versus Politics at the Byzantine Court: the charges against Marie of Antioch and Euphrosyne" in Byzantinische Forschungen vol. 24 (1997) pp. 259-295

Nexus externi

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