- Miroslava of Bulgaria
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The wedding of Miroslava and Ashot.
Miroslava (Bulgarian: Мирослава) was one of the daughters of tsar Samuil of Bulgaria and Kosara of Bulgaria. Princess Miroslava fell in love with the Byzantine noble captive Ashot Taronites, who was of Armenian origin, and threatened to commit suicide if she was not allowed to marry him. Samuel conceded and appointed Ashot governor of Dyrrhachium.[1]
Later Ashot made contact with the local Byzantines and the influential John Chryselios, Samuel's father-in-law. Ashot and Miroslava boarded one of the Byzantine ships that were beleaguering the town and fled to Constantinople. In Constantinople the Emperor Basil II granted Ashot the title of patrikios and Miroslava was honoured with the title of zoste patrikia (Lady-in-Waiting).
Family tree
Comita
NikolaRipsimia
of ArmeniaDavid Samuil
of BulgariaKosara of Bulgaria Theodora
KosaraMiroslava Gavril
RadomirSources
- ^ Skylitzes, p. 451.
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- 11th-century deaths
- 10th-century Bulgarian people
- 11th-century Bulgarian people
- Bulgarian princesses
- Bulgarian people of Armenian descent
- Women of medieval Bulgaria
- Women of the Byzantine Empire
- 11th-century Byzantine people
- Cometopuli dynasty
- European royalty stubs
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