Maria Argyrosa

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Argyropoulina

- http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZANTIUM.htm#MariaArgyredied1005

7. [MARIA Argyre (-Venice 1005, bur San Zaccaria). Cedrenus records the marriage of "principi Venetiæ" and "filiam Argyri, sororem…Romani [postea imperator]"[1577]. The Chronicon Venetum refers to "filiam Argiropoli, imperiali editam stirpe…imperatorum videlicet neptis" as wife of "Iohannem ducem" when recording their marriage, the reference to Giovanni's title suggesting that the marriage took place after he was associated in the Dogeship by his father. In a later passage, she is named "domna vero Maria, Greca ductrix"[1578]. No more precise indication of her parentage has been found in any of the other primary sources so far consulted. If she was a member of the Argyros family, it is chronologically consistent for her to have been a younger sister of the future Emperor Romanos III, but the relationship may have been more distant. It is assumed that the reference in the Chronicon Venetum to Maria having been "…imperatorum…neptis" was hyperbole for Venetian audiences. Basileios II was Byzantine emperor at the time of the marriage and no reference has been found of any relationship between the imperial family and the Argyros family. Indeed, such a relationship is unlikely in view of the subsequent marriage between Empress Zoe, the niece of Emperor Basileios, and Emperor Romanos III Argyros, no mention having been found in the Byzantine primary sources so far consulted to this marriage having been within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity. The Chronicon Venetum records the death of Maria and her husband from plague, as well as their burial place[1579].

• m ([1003]%29 GIOVANNI Orseolo, son of PIETRO Orseolo [II] Doge of Venice ([983]-Venice 1005, bur San Zaccaria). His father associated him with the Dogeship. He, his wife and young son died from plague.]