Eudokia Komnene or Eudocia Comnena (Greek: Ευδοκία Κομνηνή, Eudokia Komnēnē), (c. 1162–c. 1203) was a niece of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and wife of William VIII of Montpellier. This is a list of Byzantine Emperors. ... Manuel I Komnenos, or Comnenus, (Greek: Μανουήλ Α Κομνηνός, ManouÄ“l I KomnÄ“nos), November 28, 1118 – September 24, 1180), was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean. ...

Eudokia was a daughter of the sebastokratōr Isaac Komnenos by his second wife, Irene Synadene. Her father was a son of Emperor John II Komnenos and Piroska of Hungary, the daughter of King Ladislaus I of Hungary. Her sister Theodora Komnene married King Baldwin III of Jerusalem and was afterwards the lover of Andronikos I Komnenos. Her older half-sister Maria Komnene married King Stephen IV of Hungary. Painting of Emperor Basil II, exemplifying the Imperial Crown handed down by Angels. ... Isaac Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Ισαάκιος Κομνηνός, Isaakios KomnÄ“nos), (c. ... John II Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Ιωάννης Β΄ Κομνηνός, IōannÄ“s II KomnÄ“nos) (September 13, 1087 – April 8, 1143) was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143. ... Piroska of Hungary (1088 - 13 August 1134) was a daughter of Ladislaus I of Hungary and Adelaide of Swabia. ... Modern bust of the Saint-King Ladislaus I, (Hungarian: I. Szent László, Slovak: Saint Ladislav I) (June 27, 1040 – July 29, 1095) was a king of the Kingdom of Hungary (1077–1095). ... Baldwin III (1130-1162) was king of Jerusalem from 1143-1162. ... Billon trachy (a cup-shaped coin) of Andronikos I Komnenos (1183-1185) Andronikos I Komnenos or Andronicus I Comnenus (Greek: Ανδρόνικος Α’ Κομνηνός, Andronikos I KomnÄ“nos) (c. ... Stephen IV (Hungarian: , Slovak: Å tefan IV) was briefly king of Hungary in 1163. ...

Eudokia Komnene was sent to Provence by Manuel in 1174 to be betrothed to King Alfonso II of Aragon, but, on her arrival, she found that he had just married Sancha of Castile. As the troubadour Peire Vidal put it, he had preferred a poor Castilian maid to the emperor Manuel's golden camel. After much indecision she married William VIII of Montpellier in 1179, 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. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Alfonso II of Aragon (Alfons I of Provence and Barcelona, 1152-1196), known as the Chaste or the Troubadour was king of Aragon and count of Barcelona from 1162 to 1196. ... Infanta Sancha of Castile (1155 – November 9, 1208, Sijena) was the only child of King Alfonso VII of Castile by his second queen, Richeza of Poland. ... A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in Europe. ...

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. Folquet de Marselha, alternatively Folquet de Marseille, Foulques de Toulouse, Fulk of Toulouse (b. ... Guillaume de Puylaurens (in Latin, Guillelmus de Podio Laurenti; in English, William of Puylaurens) is a 13th century Latin chronicler, author of a history of Catharism and of the Albigensian Crusade. ...

William and Eudokia had one daughter, Marie of Montpellier, born in 1181 or 1182. In 1187 William divorced her (because she encouraged the advances of Folquet de Marselha, according to the Biographies des Troubadours; because William wanted a male heir, according to documents likely to be more reliable). Eudokia was thereafter held at the monastery of Aniane. She died about 1203, shortly before her daughter's third marriage to King Peter II of Aragon. {{}} ... Benedict of Aniane (also called Witiza, the Second Benedict) (c. ... Peter II of Aragon (1174 – September 12, 1213), surnamed the Catholic, was the king of Aragon (as Pedro II) and count of Barcelona (as Pere I) from 1196 to 1213. ...

Sources

• Biographies des troubadours ed. J. Boutière, A.-H. Schutz (Paris: Nizet, 1964) pp. 476-481.
• Stanislaw Stronski, Le troubadour Folquet de Marseille (Krakow: Académie des Sciences, 1910) pp. 156-8.
• Ruth V. Sharman, The Cansos and Sirventes of the Troubadour Giraut de Borneil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-521-25635-6) p. 59.
• Duvernoy, Jean, editor (1976), Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronique 1145-1275: Chronica magistri Guillelmi de Podio Laurentii, Paris: CNRS, ISBN 2910352064 pp. 62-3.

Guillaume de Puylaurens (in Latin, Guillelmus de Podio Laurenti; in English, William of Puylaurens) is a 13th century Latin chronicler, author of a history of Catharism and of the Albigensian Crusade. ... Cronica (in standard Latin, Chronica; in English, Chronicle) is the short title of a short history of Catharism and the Albigensian Crusade by the 13th century Toulousain author Guillaume de Puylaurens. ...

Bibliography

• W. Hecht, 'Zur Geschichte der "Kaiserin" von Montpellier, Eudoxia Komnena' in Revue des études byzantines vol. 26 (1968) pp. 161-169.
• K. Varzos, Ē genealogia tōn Komnēnōn (Thessalonica, 1984) vol. 2 pp. 346-359.