Back طرابزون ماريا Arabic طرابزون ماريا ARZ Мария Велика Комнина Bulgarian Maria Gran Comnena Catalan Maria von Trapezunt German Μαρία της Τραπεζούντας Greek María de Trebisonda (emperatriz) Spanish Marie de Trébizonde French Komnénosz Mária bizánci császárné Hungarian Maria Comnena (1404-1439) Italian
| Maria Komnene | |
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| Byzantine Empress consort | |
| Tenure | September 1427 – 17 December 1439 |
| Born | 1404 Trebizond (modern-day Trabzon, Turkey) |
| Died | 17 December 1439 Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) |
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| Dynasty | Komnenos |
| Father | Alexios IV of Trebizond |
| Mother | Theodora Kantakouzene |
| Religion | Christianity |
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Maria Megale Komnene (Greek: Μαρία Μεγάλη Κομνηνή; 1404 – 17 December 1439), known as Maria of Trebizond (Greek: Μαρία της Τραπεζούντος), was Byzantine Empress by marriage to the Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaiologos (r. 1425–1448).[1] She was the last Byzantine empress.
She was one of the daughters of Alexios IV of Trebizond and Theodora Kantakouzene.
- ^ William Miller is error saying she "married the Byzantine Emperor John VI., just as her aunt Eudokia had married his grandfather John V": John VI Kantakouzenos was co-emperor with John V. This mistake is easily explained by the loss of two characters, either by Miller's pen or the typesetter's fingers. Trebizond: The last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era: 1204-1461, 1926 (Chicago: Argonaut Books, 1969), p. 80