Eudokia Komnene, wife of William VIII of Montpellier

Eudokia Komnene
Spouse(s)	William VIII of Montpellier
Noble family	Komnenos
Born	c. 1160
Died	c. 1203

Eudokia Komnene (or Eudocia Comnena) (Greek: Εὐδοκία Κομνηνή, Eudokia Komnēnē) (c. 1160 – c. 1203) was a grand-niece of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and wife of William VIII of Montpellier, but her parentage is uncertain.

Eudokia Komnene was born in c. 1160/64 as the fifth daughter of the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos, third son of the Byzantine emperor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–1143). She was his second and last child by his second wife, Irene Diplosynadene. She is not mentioned in any contemporary Byzantine source, but only in Western ones.

Eudokia Komnene was sent to Provence by Manuel in 1174 to be betrothed to a son of the royal family of Aragon-Barcelona. According to untrustworthy troubadour narrative, her projected husband was to be their eldest son, King Alfonso II of Aragon (who had just married Sancha of Castile). The Annals of the city of Pisa report that the intended bridegroom was to be Alfonso's younger brother, Raymond Berengar V, count of Provence. The projected marriage aimed at thwarting the influence of the Emperor Barbarossa through an Aragonese and Provençal alliance with Emperor Manuel I of Constantinople. However the betrothal was terminated by Emperor Frederick I as the liege lord over the Comté de Provence, the emperor proposing Guilhem of Montpellier as a suitable alternative to become her husband. The betrothal with Raymond Berenger was at end in 1179 at latest. Count Raymond died in 1181, incidentally in Montpellier.

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