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Birth:          1162 of Constantinople
Death:          ABT 1203 

Notes
d as a nun
m 1178.79
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudokia_Komnene,_wife_of_William_VIII_of_Montpellier
Eudokia Komnene (or Eudocia Comnena) (Greek: ??d???a ??µ????, Eudokia 
Komnene) (c. 1160 – c. 1203) was a grand-niece of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I 
Komnenos, and wife of William VIII of Montpellier, but her parentage is uncertain.

Life[edit]

Eudokia Komnene was born in c.?1160/64 as the fifth daughter of the sebastokrator 
Isaac Komnenos, third son of the Byzantine emperor John II Komnenos (r.?1118–1143). 
She was his second and last child by his second wife, Irene Diplosynadene.[1] She is 
not mentioned in any contemporary Byzantine source, but only in Western ones.[2]

Eudokia Komnene was sent to Provence by Manuel in 1174 to be betrothed to a son 
of the royal family of Aragon-Barcelona. According to untrustworthy troubadour 
narrative, her projected husband was to be their eldest son, King Alfonso II of Aragon 
(who had just married Sancha of Castile). The Annals of the city of Pisa report that the 
intended bridegroom was to be Alfonso's younger brother, Raymond Berengar V, count 
of Provence. The projected marriage aimed at thwarting the influence of the Emperor 
Barbarossa through an Aragonese and Provençal alliance with Emperor Manuel I of 
Constantinople. However the betrothal was terminated by Emperor Frederick I as the 
liege lord over the Comté de Provence, the emperor proposing Guilhem of Montpellier 
as a suitable alternative to become her husband. The betrothal with Raymond 
Berenger was at end in 1179 at latest. Count Raymond died in 1181, incidentally in 
Montpellier.

As the troubadour Peire Vidal put it, the young king had preferred a poor Castilian 
maid to the emperor Manuel's golden camel.

After much indecision Eudokia married William VIII of Montpellier in 1180, 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.

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. Other sources, such as 
Guillaume de Puylaurens, correctly identify her as Manuel's niece.

William VIII and Eudokia had one daughter, Maria of Montpellier, born in 1182. In April 
1187 her husband divorced her (because she encouraged the advances of Folquet de 
Marselha, according to the Biographies des Troubadours; because William VIII wanted 
a male heir, according to documents likely to be more reliable). Eudokia was thereafter 
held at the monastery of Aniane and took the veil as a Benedictine nun. She died 
about 1203, shortly before her daughter's third marriage to King Peter II of Aragon.

Parents
KOMNENOS Isaac (ABT 1113 - )
DIPLOSYNADENE Eirene ()

Siblings
KOMNENE Theodora Kalusine (ABT 1146 - )
KOMNENA Eudoxia (Euxodia) (1162 - ABT 1203)

Marriage To ____ William (Guillaume) VIII (1158 - 1202)
    m. ABT 1178 dv. 1187 

Notes
his 1st

Parents
____ William (Guillaume) VII (ABT 1130 - BEF 29 Nov 1172)
DE BOURGOGNE Mathilde (1130 - 1159)

Children by ____ William (Guillaume) VIII 1158 - 1202
DE MONTPELIER Maria (1182 - 21 Jan 1213)

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