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Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina

Field	Value
name	Maria Angelina of Epirus
title	Basilissa
succession	Ruler of Epirus
image	Maria Paleolog.JPG
caption	Thomas and Maria Paleologina
reign	23 December 1384 – February 1385
predecessor	Thomas Preljubović
successor	Esau de' Buondelmonti
succession1	[List of empresses of the Byzantine successor states
reign1	1366 – 23 December 1384 (as wife of Thomas)
February 1385 – 28 December 1394 (as wife of Esau)
reign-type1	Tenure
spouse	[Thomas Preljubović
Esau de' Buondelmonti
house	Nemanjić
father	Simeon Uroš
mother	Thomais Orsini
birth_date	1349
death_date	28 December 1394
death_place	Ioannina, Despotate of Epirus
religion	Eastern Orthodox Christian

Consort of Epirus]] February 1385 – 28 December 1394 (as wife of Esau) | reign-type1 = Tenure Esau de' Buondelmonti | birth_place. =

Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, also known as Marija Angelina Nemanjić or Anna Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina (, Марија Ангелина Немањић; 1349 – 28 December 1394), was a Byzantine Greek-Serbian aristocrat and self-proclaimed basilissa (Greek: βασίλισσα; Empress or queen) of Epirus from 1384 to 1385, succeeding the rule of her murdered husband, Thomas Preljubović. Maria and her husband were a famed couple and patrons of the arts during Thomas's rule of Ioannina from 1366 to 1384. She is depicted in icons.

Life

Maria was the daughter of the Serbian Emperor of Thessaly, Simeon Uroš, the half-brother of Emperor Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (of the Nemanjić dynasty), and Thomais Orsini. Her maternal grandfather was John Orsini of Epirus. In 1361, Maria, then only 12 years old, married Thomas Preljubović, who was appointed governor (despot) of Epirus in Ioannina by her father in 1366. Popular with her subjects, she was allegedly mistreated by her husband and is said to have connived in his murder on 23 December 1384.

The population of Ioannina acclaimed Maria as a ruler. She used the title of basilissa, the female form of basileus. She summoned her brother John Uroš Doukas Palaiologos (later tonsured as a monk at the Meteora monastery under the name Joasaph), to advise her in the affairs of state, although he did not stay long.

John Uroš suggested that Maria marry Esau de' Buondelmonti, one of the Latin noblemen captured by Thomas in 1379. It has been alleged that Maria was already enamored of the captive before the murder of her husband, and that this affair led to the assassination of Thomas. These claims, however, remain conjectural.

Maria married Esau (who sought recognition from Byzantium) in February 1385. Maria survived for another decade, dying on 28 December 1394. She was 55.

Upon Esau's assumption of power, John Uroš left for Meteora, where he was tonsured and took the name of Joasaph. He died in 1422.

The Chronicle of Ioannina, so hostile towards Thomas Preljubović, describes Maria in very flattering terms; the Byzantine historian Laonikos Chalkokondyles, however, portrays her as an unfaithful wife of questionable morality. Both accounts may reflect authorial bias. Maria does not appear to have had surviving children from either marriage.

References

Sources

References

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(2018-05-11). "The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium".
Nicol, D. M. (1984). ''The despotate of Epiros, 1267–1479: A contribution to the history of Greece in the Middle Ages''. Cambridge University Press.

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