Komnena Nemanjić ( sr-cyr, Комнена Немањић; ; fl. 1208–1215) was a Serbian princess from the

Nemanjić dynasty The House of Nemanjić ( sr-Cyrl, Немањић, Немањићи; Nemanjić, Nemanjići, ) was the most prominent Serbian dynasty of Serbia in the Middle Ages. This princely, royal and imperial house produced List of Serbian monarchs, twelv ...

. She was married to Dhimitër Progoni who held the title Prince of Albania and was the ruler of the

Principality of Arbanon Arbanon ( Old Albanian: in Old Gheg, in Old Tosk; ) was a medieval principality in present-day Albania, ruled by the native Progoni family, and the first Albanian state to emerge in recorded history. The principality was established in 1190 ...

. She served as

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after his death. She later married Gregorios Kamonas, who sought to strengthen ties with

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and secure Arbanon through their marriage. She was the only daughter of Serbian King Stephen II Nemanjić (r. 1196–1228).REDAKCIJA ZA ISTORIJU CRNE GORE: ISTORIJA CRNE GORE, book 2, tom 1, Titograd, 1970, pp. 8-9.

Life

Komnena was born to King Stephen II and his first wife Eudokia Angelina, a Greek noblewoman from the Angelos dynasty, and was thus a granddaughter of Emperor

Alexios III Angelos Alexios III Angelos (; 1211), Latinized as Alexius III Angelus, was Byzantine Emperor from March 1195 to 17/18 July 1203. He reigned under the name Alexios Komnenos (; Aléxios Komnēnós) associating himself with the Komnenos dynasty (from whi ...

. She had three brothers: Stephen Radoslav (r. 1228–1233), Stephen Vladislav I (r. 1233–1243) and Predislav (the third Serbian Archbishop as ''Saint Sava II'', after uncle

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). She married Dhimitër Progoni in 1208, and a brief alliance was formed between

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and Arbanon amidst conflicts with the

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. After Dhimitër died in 1215, the power was left to Komnena, who shortly afterward married Greco-Albanian lord Grigor Kamona. He assumed control over Kruja, strengthening relations with Serbia. She had a daughter with Gregorios who married

Golem of Kruja Golem was an Albanian nobleman who ruled the Principality of Arbanon, in its phase of semi-independency. He was the last ruler of Arbanon before its final annexation in the reemerging Byzantine Empire. His holdings included Krujë and probably ...

.The Genealogist, Volumes 1-2
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References

Sources

Skenderbeg, Makedonci i akademik Kaplan Burović
*The New Cambridge Medieval History: c. 1198-c. 1300
p. 786''The despotate of Epiros''
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