Maria TARONITISSA

   Research Notes:

An anonymous poem records the marriage of Ioannes Komnenos and his wife "from the family of a pansebastos…the glory of the Taronites…on her paternal side issued from a branch of the same trunk…as she descends…from the race of the Komnenoi". According to Rüdt-Collenberg, she was the daughter or granddaughter either of Ioannes Taronites [I] or of his brother Gregorios (sons of Mikhael Taronites). According to Europäische Stammtafeln, she was the possible daughter of Mikhael Taronites [II]. Jean Claude Chuat first proposed that she was the daughter of Ioannes Taronites [III]. This affiliation appears to satisfy all the requirements of the text of the anonymous poem quoted above. Her birth date range is estimated on the assumption that she was an adolescent or young adult at the time of her marriage. She became a nun as MARIA after her husband died.

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   Marriage Information:

Maria married Ioannes KOMNENOS Duke of Cyprus, son of Andronikos KOMNENOS "sebastokrator" and Eirini RHODOCANAKIS "sebastokratorissa", about 1146. (Ioannes KOMNENOS Duke of Cyprus was born about 1128 and died about Oct 1176 in Battle of Myriokephalon, Phrygia.)