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Maria's husband followed the determined policy of his predecessors to resist the ongoing
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The honourable treatment which she and her family subsequently received in
Constantinople, the allocation of prestigious titles to both her and her children, and the eminent marriages her descendants concluded within the Byzantine high nobility despite the enmity between her husband and Byzantium,
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Byzantine sovereignty following the death of her husband whilst he was besieging Dyrrhachium, suggesting that she possessed the requisite status and prestige, both for the Bulgarians and the Byzantines, to do so. Her hypothetical descent from
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233:. During his sojourn in Constantinople Boris II had a relationship with an unknown woman by whom he left several children. Settipani believes that one of these children may have been Maria since:
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174:(lady-in-waiting to the Empress) in 1019. Her family was integrated into the Byzantine court and inter-married with some of the most prominent Byzantine noble families.
133:(Samuil) of Bulgaria; Samuil had succeeded her father. In 987 Samuel ordered his brother Aron executed for treason together with his entire family. The
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and negotiated guarantees for the preservation of their lives, status, and property. Maria together with her children were sent to
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avenged the deaths of his innocent siblings by murdering his savior
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has noted the possibility that she may be the daughter of
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