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• Gender	Female
  Person ID	I32953	Ellis-Pagoria Family Tree
  Last Modified	23 Dec 2012
  Father	Mairari Prince of Abyssinia
  Mother	Unknown
  Family ID	F14391	Group Sheet
  Family	Andronikos Kamateros Doukas,   b. 1108,   d. 1176
  Children	1. Euphrosyne (Kamateros (Kamaterina) Doukania,   b. 1143,   d. 1211
  Family ID	F14389	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Audrey Maxine Ellis' 23rd Great Grandmother There is a story that the Ethiopian Emperor Lalibela, who, accompanied by his "troublesome" sister, Qirwerne, traveled to the Holy Land and visited the Byzantine Emperor at Constantinople. There at the imperial court he and his sister appear to have met Izyaslav II of Kiev/Russia who was there visiting the emperor during the time of their visit. There are also undocumented legends about Lalibela and his sister that probably are based on actual events. Qirwerne remained at the imperial court at Constantinople after Lalibela returned to Ethiopia. Meantime, the Ethiopian Princess married twice: once [in 1153] to Izyaslav II of Kiev/Russia (d1154), and, upon returning to Constantinople after her first husband's death, Qirwerne married secondly [in 1158] to Andronikos Dukas Kamateros, a Byzantine prince (d1176), by whom she was the mother of Euphrosyne (d1211), wife/empress of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius III (d1210), which gives a "gateway" from Africa to Europe (see below). The story about the involvement of an un-named widow of an un-named king and Andronikos Kamateros [reminds one of the story of the sister of England's King Henry VIII, namely, Princess/Queen Mary, widow of King Louis XII of France, and her subsequent involvement and marriage to Charles Brandon, an English squire] is the basis for the identification of the second husband of the Ethiopian princess, for circumstantial evidence clearly identifies this un-named widow to have been Lalibela's "troublesome" sister, Qirwerne, and the un-named king to have been Izyaslav II, her first husband [his 3rd marriage] who died shortly after their marriage. "Descents From Antiquity": gateway from Africa to Europe http://www.angelfire.com/ego/et_deo/africa2europe.htm