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Rita of Armenia (10/11 January 1278 – July 1333) was a daughter of King Levon II of Armenia and Queen Keran. She was the wife of Byzantine co-emperor Michael IX Palaiologos, making her a junior empress-consort of the Byzantine Empire. In 1317, she became the only empress upon the death of the senior empress, Irene of Montferrat. She was known as Maria in Constantinople. ==Marriage and children== A chronicle attributed to Hetoum II of Armenia is included in the collection known as ''Recueil des Historiens des Croisades''. According to a passage recording her birth, Rita was the twin sister of Princess Theophane of Armenia. The history of George Pachymeres records that Andronikos II Palaiologos began negotiations with Levon while seeking a potential wife for his son and junior co-ruler Michael IX Palaiologos. Levon offered him Rita, and the marriage took place on 16 January 1294. The bride was sixteen years old and the groom seventeen. Rita assumed the name ''Maria'' while at the Byzantine court. They had four children: * Andronikos III Palaiologos (25 March 1297 – 15 June 1341). * Manuel Palaiologos, ''despotes'' (died 1319). * Anna Palaiologina (died 1320), who married Thomas I Komnenos Doukas and then Nicholas Orsini. * Theodora Palaiologina (died after 1330), who married Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria and then Michael Asen III of Bulgaria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rita of Armenia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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