Demetrios I. Polemis (1968). The Doukai: a contribution to Byzantine prosopography. Athlone P. p. 90. ISBN9780485131222. «1216, through the efforts of Theodoros 42, Manuel married a Serbian princess who was a sister of king Stephen II Nemanja.7 She could not have lived long as in 1225 Manuel married again, this time with Maria, an illegitimate daughter of Ivan ...»