Cossara
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| Kosara | |
|---|---|
| Empress-consort of Bulgaria | |
| Born | Mid 10th century Byzantine empire |
| Died | Unknown |
| Spouse | Samuel of Bulgaria |
| Issue | Theodora Kosara Miroslava Gavril Radomir |
| Father | John Chryselios |
Kosara or Cossara (Template:Lang-bg)[1] was a Bulgarian Empress, the wife of Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria. She married about 970.
Her father was John Chryselios from Dyrrhachium. His name and his heresy drive us towards the middle of the Armenians Paulicians.[2]
Family tree
Samuel and Kosara had many children:
- Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria, her son, was married to the Hungarian princess. He married to another women - Irena, after divorcing her. Gavril Radomir ruled the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to September 1015.
- Miroslava of Bulgaria, her daughter, fell in love with the Byzantine noble captive from Armenian origin Ashot of Taron and married to him around 998. Later she escaped with him to Byzantium.
- Theodora Kosara of Bulgaria, her daughter, fell in love with Jovan Vladimir of Doclea who was prisoner of her father Samuel of Bulgaria. She married him.
| Samuel of Bulgaria | Kosara of Bulgaria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Theodora Kosara of Bulgaria | Miroslava of Bulgaria | Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
See also
Notes
- ^ "Samuel avait épousé la fille de Chrysélios de Dyrrachium...Cossara, fille de Chrysélios, est ..." In: (French) Adontz, Nicholas. Études Arméno-Byzantines. Samuel l'Arménien roi des Bulgares. Livraria Bertrand. Lisbonne, 1965, p. 396.
- ^ Chryselios originate and owes his name to Melissa or Melitta, Coloneia, today Melet (Hamidie), in some kilometers of Koyli-Hissar, Turkey. Coloneia was one of the regions occupied by Paulicians. The Arab sources call Melissene "isäba' al dhahab", which is equivalent to Chrysocheir (Rosen, Basile Bulgaroctone, p. 240). Chryselios, man "in the sun of gold" has no satisfactory sense but using the Armenian language, is a man who “has gold life”, would mean “happy man”. Also, Cossara, the daughter of Chryselios, is sensible to be heretical in the same sense as "Samuel's sin is the heresy of Novatiens and the Armenians". It means that they thought that they belonged to the community of Paulicians or Bogomils. In detail see: (French) Adontz, Nicholas. Études Arméno-Byzantines. Samuel l'Arménien roi des Bulgares. Livraria Bertrand. Lisbonne, 1965, Pp. 347-407 (395, 396)
References
- Template:Fr icon Adontz, Nicholas (1965). "Samuel l'Armenien, Roi des Bulgares". Études Arméno-Byzantines. Lisbonne: Livraria Bertrand.
- Edouard Selian. The Coat of Arms of Emperor Samuel. In: American Chronicle, 21 март, 2009 and Macedonian Digest, Edition 40 – April 2009.