Kosara or Cossara
was a Bulgarian Empress, the wife of Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria. She married about 970.

Her father was John Chryselios

John Chryselios

John Chryselios was a Byzantine provincial magnate in late 10th-century Dyrrhachium, and the father-in-law of Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria.Chryselios was the "leading man" of Dyrrhachium. At some point the Bulgarian tsar Samuel married Chryselios' daughter Kosara, thereby acquiring control over the...

 from Dyrrhachium. His name and his heresy drive us towards the middle of the Armenians

Armenians

Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....

 Paulicians.

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.

Family tree

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

Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria

Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria

Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

, her son, was married to the Hungarian princess. He married to another women - Irena, after divorcing her. Gavril Radomir ruled the First Bulgarian Empire

First Bulgarian Empire

The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state founded in the north-eastern Balkans in c. 680 by the Bulgars, uniting with seven South Slavic tribes...

 from October 1014 to September 1015.

Miroslava of Bulgaria

Miroslava of Bulgaria

Miroslava was one of the daughters of tsar Samuil of Bulgaria and Kosara of Bulgaria. Princess Miroslava fell in love with the Byzantine noble captive Ashot Taronites, who was of Armenian origin, and threatened to commit suicide if she was not allowed to marry him...

, her daughter, fell in love with the Byzantine noble captive from Armenian origin Ashot

Ashot

-Kings of the Bagratuni Dynasty:*Ashot I of Armenia , ruled 884-890*Ashot II, Ashot Yerkat , 915-930*Ashot III, Voghormats 953-977*Ashot IV, Qadj , 1021-1039/1040-Kings of Tao-Klarjeti:...

 of Taron

Taron

Taron may refer to: * Taron , a region of historic Armenia* Taron , an ethnic group in Myanmar* Taron, a genus of gastropods in the family Fasciolariidae...

 and married to him around 998

998

Year 998 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Otto III retakes the city of Rome and reinstates his cousin, Pope Gregory V, after mutilating and blinding his rival, Antipope John XVI.* St...

. Later she escaped with him to Byzantium

Byzantium

Byzantium was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas . The name Byzantium is a Latinization of the original name Byzantion...

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Theodora Kosara of Bulgaria

Theodora Kosara of Bulgaria

Theodora Kosara of Bulgaria was the daughter of Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria and Kosara of Bulgaria.Theodora Kosara fell in love with Jovan Vladimir of Doclea who was prisoner of her father Samuil...

, her daughter, fell in love with Jovan Vladimir

Jovan Vladimir

Jovan Vladimir or John Vladimir was ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbian principality of the time, from around 1000 to 1016. He ruled during the protracted war between the Byzantine Empire and the First Bulgarian Empire...

 of Doclea

Duklja

Doclea or Duklja was a medieval state with hereditary lands roughly encompassing the territories of present-day southeastern Montenegro, from Kotor on the west to the river Bojana on the east and to the sources of Zeta and Morača rivers on the north....

 who was prisoner of her father Samuel of Bulgaria. She married him. Doclea

Duklja

Doclea or Duklja was a medieval state with hereditary lands roughly encompassing the territories of present-day southeastern Montenegro, from Kotor on the west to the river Bojana on the east and to the sources of Zeta and Morača rivers on the north....

 is in present day Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

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See also

• Eustathios Daphnomeles
  Eustathios Daphnomeles
  Eustathios Daphnomeles was a Byzantine strategos and patrician who distinguished himself in the Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria. Along with Nikephoros Ouranos and Nikephoros Xiphias, he ranks as one of the most prominent and successful generals of Emperor Basil II against Samuel of Bulgaria,...
  
  
• Edouard Selian. The Coat of Arms of Emperor Samuel. In: American Chronicle, 21 март, 2009 ( http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/95387) and Macedonian Digest, Edition 40 – April 2009 (http://www.maknews.com/html/articles/stefov/digest_40.html).