Seal of Rita of Armenia (under the name Maria Doukaina Palaiologina)
Byzantine Empress consort
Tenure
16 January 1294 – 12 October 1320
Born
10/11 January 1278
Died
July 1333 (aged 55)
Spouse
Michael IX Palaiologos
Issue
Andronikos III Palaiologos
Manuel Palaiologos, Despotes
Anna Palaiologina, Despoina of Epirus and Countess of Cephalonia
Theodora Palaiologina, Empress of Bulgaria
Dynasty
Hethumid (By Birth) Palaiologos (Marriage)
Father
Levon II of Armenia
Mother
Keran, Queen of Armenia
Rita of Armenia (Greek: Μαρία; 10/11 January 1278 – July 1333) was an Armenian Princess. She was a Byzantine Empress consort by marriage to Michael IX Palaiologos.[1]
She was the daughter of King Levon II of Armenia and Queen Keran. She was the wife of Byzantine co-emperor Michael IX Palaiologos, making her a junior empress-consort of the Byzantine Empire. In 1317, she became the only empress upon the death of the senior empress, Irene of Montferrat. She was known as Maria in Constantinople.
^Freely, J. (1998). Istanbul: The Imperial City. Storbritannien: Penguin Books Limited.
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