A westerner from Antioch who married Emperor Manuel I and became the deeply unpopular regent for their 11-year-old son Alexius II after Manuel's death. Her government's restoration of Venetian trading privileges and use of Italian and Frankish merchants sparked riots and anti-western sentiment in Constantinople. Andronicus ultimately forced Alexius II to sign his own mother's death warrant.
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Episode 15 (1 mention)
A westerner from Antioch who married Emperor Manuel I and became the deeply unpopular regent for their 11-year-old son Alexius II after Manuel's death. Her government's restoration of Venetian trading privileges and use of Italian and Frankish merchants sparked riots and anti-western sentiment in Constantinople. Andronicus ultimately forced Alexius II to sign his own mother's death warrant.
“Far more important to them was the fact that Manuel had married a woman from the West, Maria of Antioch.”
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