Research Notes:

Shown in many secondary sources as a daughter of Ašot II Bagratuni, king of Armenia (d.c. 928) and his wife Marija. To-date I have found no historical research material which advances this claim.

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Samuil, later Tsar of Bulgaria, names "my father, my mother, my brother…Nicolas…--- and David" in a monument erected in [992/93]. Adontz quotes the monument (in Bulgarian) in full, including Samuil’s mother’s name. However, on the subsequent page he states that "du nom de la mère il ne reste que la dernière lettre" and that "Michel de Devol permet de le rétablir en témoignant que le père de Samuel s’appelait Nicolas et la mère Ριψίμη". Unfortunately, he gives no citation for this statement but on an earlier page quotes a passage inserted in another text written by "Michel évêque de Devol", and cites a German secondary source although it is not at all clear from what he writes that this is where the passage naming Samuil’s mother can be found.... ¹