Kosara of Bulgaria

Kosara
Empress-consort of Bulgaria
Spouse Samuel of Bulgaria
Issue
Theodora Kosara
Miroslava
Gavril Radomir
Father John Chryselios
Born Mid 10th century
Byzantine empire
Died Unknown

Kosara or Cossara (Bulgarian: Косара)[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]

In contemporary Bulgaria, Kosara is a popular name traditionally associated with the Emperor Samuel’s family. Today, there is a village Kosara in Northern Bulgaria founded in 1750 by Armenians.

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Family tree

Kosara of Bulgaria had many children. Some of them that we know are:

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. Doclea is in present day Montenegro.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Samuel
of Bulgaria
 
 
 
 Kosara of Bulgaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Theodora Kosara of Bulgaria
 
 
 Miroslava of Bulgaria
 
 
 Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria

Notes

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ Chryselios originate and owes his name to Melissa or Melitta, city of 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)

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