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Name: Maria Monomachina
Sex: F
Birth: Abt 1030 ^b
Death: 1067 ^d

Parents:

Father:
Konstantinos IX Monomachos, Emperor Death: 11 Jan 1055

Mother:

(Unk Dau) Skleraina Death: Abt 1032

Family:
Marriage:

Wsevolod I Prince Of Pereyaslavl And Kiev on 1046 .^m1
Wsevolod I Prince Of Pereyaslavl And Kiev Birth: 1030 Death: 13 Apr 1093

Children:

Vladimir II Of Monomachus, Grand Prince Of Kiev Birth: 1053 Death: 19 May 1125
Eupraxia Of Kiev Birth: Abt 1067 Death: 10 Jul 1109

Bibliography

Brook, Lindsay L, The Byzantine Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, The Genealogist (APSG), vol 2 no 1 (1981), p3-51. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p[0-9#]*].
Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. II: Die Ausserdeutschen Staaten Die Regierenden Hauser der Ubrigen Staaten Europas. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES II #[0-9]*].
Chuat, Jean Claude, Mosul and Skleros. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 6/30/1998. Subject: Mosul and Skleros. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/rUWBCCuEPJY/m/9t-p5dOcqQ4J. Author address: chuat at tolbiac dot inserm dot fr. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Jean Claude Chuat SGM 6/30/1998].
Moriarty, G Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen Philippa. Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985. LDS Film#0441438. NYPL ARF-86-2555. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007905814?cat=66443. Also available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/66443. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p[0-9]*].
Borthwick, Richard, Konstantin IX v. Byzanz. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 2/5/2000. Subject: Konstantin IX v. Byzanz. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/1GQU9B00bzU/m/q8SMM4hGS9sJ. Author address: rgbor at cyllene dot uwa dot edu dot au. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richard Borthwick SGM 2/5/2000].
Farmerie, Todd, Re: Mosul and Skleros. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 6/24/1998. Subject: Mosul and Skleros. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/6egOzbpddtQ/m/pbZAHjHay-AJ. Author address: taf2 at po dot cwru dot edu. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Todd Farmerie SGM 6/24/1998].
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: abt 1030 [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p21],
parents:: Konstantinos IX & dau Basileios Skleros [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p21, Richard Borthwick SGM 2/5/2000],
father:: [Ref: ES II #128, Moriarty Plantagenet p144],
name:: Irene? [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p144]; Maria [Ref: ES II #128]; Maria or Anastasia [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p21]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: ES II #128, Moriarty Plantagenet p144, Weis AR7 #242]

Sources with Information about marriage to Wsevolod I Prince Of Pereyaslavl And Kiev

date:: [Ref: ES II #128, Weis AR7 #242]; abt 1046 [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p144],
names:: Wesvolod I & (Irene?) [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p144]; Wsevolod & a Monomacha [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p32, Weis AR7 #242],
child:: [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p32, ES II #135, Moriarty Plantagenet p144, Weis AR7 #242]

Research Notes:
a Monomacha [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p21, Weis AR7 #242]

daughter or near kinswoman of Constantine IX Emperor of the East [Ref: Moriarty Plantagenet p144]

whether a daughter of Constantine's Skleraina wife or of his Skleraina mistress, Maria the sebaste, will probably never be established beyond all doubt. [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p21]

Even IF the Monomacha (whatever her name was) was daughter of Constantine, and not just a kinswoman, we certainly cannot say who her mother was. [Ref: Todd Farmerie SGM 6/24/1998]

According to Vannier, who studied the Argyroi family, the filiation given is that of Na Skleraina, Constantine IX's second wife, who died 1032/34 apparently without issue. She was the pair's only child. Vannier believes that the mother of Anastasia Monomache (who m. Vsevolod 1046/50) was this Na's first cousin, the Sebaste Maria Skleraina, Constantine's official mistress, so vividly depicted by Psellos. There is no proof of this, of course, but he rather definitely dismisses the alternative filiation.
Anyway, Maria Skleraina was also a gdau. of Romanos Skleros who may have m. the Princess of Mosul, so that the Mosul filiation remains open, hopeless though it may seem.
For details, see JF. VANNIER, Familles byzantines. Les Argyroi (IXe-XIIe sicles). Paris 1975 - page 35, with a discussion of the term 'anepsia' (here cousin rather than niece) used in contemporary sources to describe the relationship between Na Skleraina and the Sebaste Maria Skleraina. [Ref: Jean Claude Chuat SGM 6/30/1998]

Pedigree of Maria Monomachina
          /-----Theodosius
/-----Konstantinos IX Monomachos, Emperor
Maria Monomachina
|                                    /-----Niketas Skleros, Patrician
|                           /-----Bardas Skleros, Emperor Of Byzantine
|                          |        |                           /-----Bardos
|                          |        |                  /-----Basileios
|                          |        |         /-----Bardas
|                          |         \-----Gregoria Of Macedonia
|                  /-----Romanos Skleros
|         /-----Basileios Skleros
|        |         \-----(Unk) Fadlallah
\-----(Unk Dau) Skleraina
         |                                                      /-----Leon Argyros
         |                                             /-----Eustathios Argyros
         |                                    /-----Leon Argyros
         |                           /-----Komanos Argyros
         |                  /-----(Unk Son) Argyros
         |                 |        |                  /-----Theophylaktos
         |                 |        |         /-----Romanus I Lekapenos, Eastern Emperor
         |                 |         \-----Agatha Lekapene
         |                 |                  \-----(Unk)
         |         /-----(Unk Son) Argyropoulos
          \-----Pulcheria Argyropoulina

Descendants of Maria Monomachina