| Maria Komnene | |
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| Byzantine Empress consort | |
| Tenure | September 1427 – 17 December 1439 |
| Born | 1404 Trebizond (modern-day Trabzon, Turkey) |
| Died | 17 December 1439 Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) |
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| Dynasty | Komnenos |
| Father | Alexios IV of Trebizond |
| Mother | Theodora Kantakouzene |
| Religion | Christianity |
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Maria Megale Komnene (Greek: Μαρία Μεγάλη Κομνηνή; 1404 – 17 December 1439), known as Maria of Trebizond (Greek: Μαρία της Τραπεζούντος), was Byzantine Empress by marriage to the Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaiologos (r. 1425–1448).[1] She was the last Byzantine empress.
She was one of the daughters of Alexios IV of Trebizond and Theodora Kantakouzene.
- ^ William Miller is error saying she "married the Byzantine Emperor John VI., just as her aunt Eudokia had married his grandfather John V": John VI Kantakouzenos was co-emperor with John V. This mistake is easily explained by the loss of two characters, either by Miller's pen or the typesetter's fingers. Trebizond: The last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era: 1204-1461, 1926 (Chicago: Argonaut Books, 1969), p. 80