Eudokia Komnene or Eudocia Comnena (Greek: Ευδοκία Κομνηνή, Eudokia Komnēnē), (c. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly 1150 or 1152 – c. 1203) was a niece of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and wife of William VIII of Montpellier. This is a list of the Emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire, commonly known as the Byzantine Empire by modern historians For the eldest son of Andronikos I Komnenos and father of Alexios I of Trebizond, see Manuel Komnenos (born 1145. William VIII of Montpellier (died 1202 was Lord of Montpellier, the son of William VII.
Eudokia was a daughter of the sebastokratōr Isaac Komnenos by his second wife, Irene Synadene. The Byzantine Empire had a complex system of Aristocracy and Bureaucracy, which was inherited from the Roman Empire. Isaac Komnenos or Comnenus ( Greek: Ισαάκιος Κομνηνός Isaakios Komnēnos) (c Her father was a son of Emperor John II Komnenos and Piroska of Hungary, the daughter of King Ladislaus I of Hungary. John II Komnenos or Comnenus ( Iōannēs II Komnēnos) ( September 13, 1087 &ndash April 8, 1143) was Byzantine Piroska of Hungary (1088 – 13 August, 1134) was a daughter of Ladislaus I of Hungary and Adelaide of Swabia. For other monarchs with similar names please see Ladislaus I (disambiguation. Her sister Theodora Komnene married King Baldwin III of Jerusalem and was afterwards the lover of Andronikos I Komnenos. Theodora Komnene or Comnena ( Greek: Θεοδώρα Κομνηνή Theodōra Komnēnē) (born c Baldwin III of Jerusalem (1130 &ndash February 10, 1162) was king of Jerusalem from 1143&ndash1162 Andronikos I Komnenos or Andronicus I Comnenus ( Greek: Ανδρόνικος Α’ Κομνηνός Andronikos I Komninos; c Her older half-sister Maria Komnene married King Stephen IV of Hungary. Maria Komnene or Comnena (1144-1190 was the daughter of Isaac Komnenos and his first wife Theodora Stephen IV ( Hungarian: IV István, Croatian: Stjepan V, Slovak: Štefan IV
Eudokia Komnene was sent to Provence by Manuel in 1174 to be betrothed to King Alfonso II of Aragon, but, on her arrival, she found that he had just married Sancha of Castile. Provence ( Provençal Occitan: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm is a region of southeastern France Alfonso II (Aragon or Alfons I (Provence and Barcelona ( Huesca, 1157 &ndash Perpignan, 1196 called the Chaste or the Troubadour Infanta Sancha of Castile ( September 21 1154 or 1155 &ndash November 9 1208, Sijena) was the only child of King Alfonso As the troubadour Peire Vidal put it, he had preferred a poor Castilian maid to the emperor Manuel's golden camel. A troubadour ( IPA:, originally) was a composer and performer of Occitan Lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100&ndash1350 Peire Vidal (1175 &ndash 1205 was a Troubadour. According to his Biography, he was the son of a Furrier, and the greatest of singers After much indecision she married William VIII of Montpellier in 1179, having made it a condition (to which all male citizens of Montpellier were required to swear) that their firstborn child, boy or girl, would succeed him in the lordship of Montpellier. William VIII of Montpellier (died 1202 was Lord of Montpellier, the son of William VII.
Eudokia was sometimes described by contemporaries, including the troubadours Folquet de Marselha and Guiraut de Bornelh, as an empress (Occitan emperairitz) and was commonly said to be a daughter of the emperor Manuel, which has led to some confusion among modern authors about her family links. Folquet de Marselha, alternatively Folquet de Marseille, Foulques de Toulouse, Fulk of Toulouse (c Giraut de Bornelh (c 1138 &ndash 1215 whose first name is also spelled Guiraut and whose nickname Borneil ( l) or Borneyll, was a Troubadour Other sources, such as Guillaume de Puylaurens, correctly identify her as Manuel's niece. Guillaume de Puylaurens (in Occitan Guilhèm de Puèglaurenç; in Latin Guillelmus de Podio Laurenti; in English William of Puylaurens) is a 13th century
William and Eudokia had one daughter, Marie of Montpellier, born in 1181 or 1182. Marie of Montpellier (adapted from Occitan: Maria de Montpelhièr) (1182 &ndash 18 April 1213) was the daughter of William VIII of Montpellier In 1187 William divorced her (because she encouraged the advances of Folquet de Marselha, according to the Biographies des Troubadours; because William wanted a male heir, according to documents likely to be more reliable). Vida is the usual term for a brief prose biography written in Occitan, of a Troubadour or Trobairitz. Eudokia was thereafter held at the monastery of Aniane. Aniane is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. She died about 1203, shortly before her daughter's third marriage to King Peter II of Aragon. Peter II of Aragon ( 1174 &ndash September 12 1213) surnamed the Catholic, was the king of Aragon (as Pedro II and count of
Sources
- Biographies des troubadours ed. Vida is the usual term for a brief prose biography written in Occitan, of a Troubadour or Trobairitz. J. Boutière, A. -H. Schutz (Paris: Nizet, 1964) pp. 476-481.
- Stanislaw Stronski, Le troubadour Folquet de Marseille (Krakow: Académie des Sciences, 1910) pp. 156-158.
- Ruth V. Sharman. The Cansos and Sirventes of the Troubadour Giraut de Borneil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-521-25635-6, p. 59.
- Duvernoy, Jean (1976), written at Paris, Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronique 1145-1275: Chronica magistri Guillelmi de Podio Laurentii, CNRS, ISBN 2910352064, pp. Guillaume de Puylaurens (in Occitan Guilhèm de Puèglaurenç; in Latin Guillelmus de Podio Laurenti; in English William of Puylaurens) is a 13th century Cronica (in standard Latin Chronica; in English "Chronicle" is the short title of a short history of Catharism and the Albigensian Crusade 62-63.
Bibliography
- W. Hecht. 'Zur Geschichte der "Kaiserin" von Montpellier, Eudoxia Komnena' in Revue des études byzantines, Vol. 26 (1968), pp. 161-169.
- K. Varzos. Ē genealogia tōn Komnēnōn, (Thessalonica, 1984) Vol. 2, pp. 346-359.
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