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Rita of Armenia
Seal of Rita of Armenia (under the name Maria Doukaina Palaiologina)
Byzantine Empress consort
Tenure16 January 1294 – 12 October 1320
Born10/11 January 1278
DiedJuly 1333 (aged 55)
SpouseMichael IX Palaiologos
Issue
  • Andronikos III Palaiologos
  • Manuel Palaiologos, Despotes
  • Anna Palaiologina, Despoina of Epirus and Countess of Cephalonia
  • Theodora Palaiologina, Empress of Bulgaria
DynastyHethumid (By Birth)
Palaiologos (Marriage)
FatherLevon II of Armenia
MotherKeran, 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.

  1. ^ Freely, J. (1998). Istanbul: The Imperial City. Storbritannien: Penguin Books Limited.

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