Maria Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem

Maria Comnena, Greek Maria Komnini ( Μαρία Κομνηνή ) (* 1154, † before 1217 ) was the wife of King Amalric I. Queen of Jerusalem.

She was great-niece of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus. Her father was the Protosebastos Johannes Dukas Komnenos, Andronikos Komnenos her grandfather.

After the marriage had been annulled to his first wife, King Amalric I of Jerusalem they sought through a marriage with Maria Comnena his alliance with Byzantium to strengthen, with whom he operated against the Egyptian Fatimids. Hernesius, Archbishop of Caesarea, and Eudes de Saint- Amand, the royal cupbearer, were sent in 1165 to Constantinople Opel to pick up Maria. She was anointed in Opel Konstantin as Queen and dedicated. The embassy returned two years later and landed at Tyre. The bride was accompanied by Emperor Manuel Paleologos and Georgios. The marriage with King Amalric I. was closed on August 19, 1167 in Tyre by the Patriarch Amalric and Mary crowned Queen of Jerusalem. Your dowry was Nablus.

From the marriage with Amalric came from their daughter Isabella.

After Amalric had died in 1174, she married her second husband in 1177, Balian of Ibelin, his brother Baldwin of Ramla, who thus became the lords of Nablus. Their sons were John of Ibelin and Philip of Ibelin, the father of the jurist John of Ibelin, Count of Jaffa.