Maria-Irene Palaiologina

For other people with the same name, see Irene Palaiologina.
Irene
Ειρήνη Παλαιολογίνα
Empress consort of Bulgaria
Born 1332
Byzantine Empire
Spouse Michael Asen IV of Bulgaria
Father Andronikos III Palaiologos
Mother Anna of Savoy

Irene Palaiologina (Irina; Ειρήνη Παλαιολογίνα) (1327 - after 1356) was a Byzantine princess and Bulgarian empress consort.[1] She was also known as Maria Palaiologina (Μαρία Παλαιολογίνα).

Her parents were Andronikos III Palaiologos and Anna of Savoy,[2] whilst her siblings were John V Palaiologos[3] and Michael Palaiologos.[4]

She married in 1336 Tsar Michael Asen IV of Bulgaria.[5]

About this woman nothing else is known, except that she was an Orthodox Christian.

Sources

  1. Georgios Phrantzes Liber I, 8, p. 39.
  2. Her listing in "Medieval lands" by Charles Cawley. The project "involves extracting and analysing detailed information from primary sources, including contemporary chronicles, cartularies, necrologies and testaments."
  3. Nicol, Donald M., The Last Centuries of Byzantium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 2nd edition. ISBN 0-521-43991-4
  4. Guilland, Rodolphe (1959). "Recherches sur l'histoire administrative de l'Empire byzantin: Le despote, δεσπότης". Revue des études byzantines (in French). 17: 52–89. doi:10.3406/rebyz.1959.1199. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  5. EIRENE Maria Palaiologina
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