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
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. She served as
regent
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after his death. She later married
Gregorios Kamonas, who sought to strengthen ties with
Serbia
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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 ...
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[ 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 ]Sava
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).
She married Dhimitër Progoni in 1208, and a brief alliance was formed between Serbia
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and Arbanon amidst conflicts with the Republic of Venice
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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
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.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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