玛丽亚·巴列奥略·坎塔库泽努斯（以下简称玛丽亚）帝国时代2决定版保加利亚战役伊瓦伊洛中登场的角色，以旁白的形式出现在游戏里第二关和各个过场剧情，她是伊瓦伊洛战役的主要叙述者。有关玛丽亚皇后的国内史料很少，所以搬运部分资料过来并进行翻译。翻译水平有限，如果有错误欢迎大家指正。

Maria Palaiologina Kantakouzene (Bulgarian: Мария Палеологина Кантакузина, Greek: Μαρία Παλαιολογίνα Καντακουζηνή) was an Empress consort of Bulgaria by marriage to two Bulgarian Emperors, Constantine Tikh and Ivaylo. She was a niece of Michael VIII Palaiologos. She is referred to as the most powerful empress of Bulgaria. She ruled as regent from 1271 to 1279 on behalf of her minor son Michael Asen II, who was made co-regent of her first spouse, and remained co-regent during the reign of her second spouse.

玛丽亚·巴列奥略·坎塔库泽努斯是保加利亚的皇后，分别与两位保加利亚沙皇君士坦丁·蒂赫和伊瓦伊洛结婚。她是米哈伊尔八世的侄女。她被称为保加利亚最有权势的皇后。从1271年到1279年，她代表她未成年儿子米哈伊尔·阿森二世垂帘听政。米哈伊尔·阿森二世在玛丽亚第一任丈夫期间（指康斯坦丁沙皇）担任共同摄政王，并在第二任丈夫（指伊瓦伊洛）统治期间继续担任共同摄政王。

她的家族

Maria was the second daughter of John Kantakouzenos and Irene Komnene Palaiologina, sister of Michael VIII Palaiologos.

玛丽亚是约翰·坎塔库泽努斯和米哈伊尔八世·巴列奥略的姐姐伊琳娜·科穆宁·巴列奥略的次女。

According to George Pachymeres, Maria was unusually perfidious and sly and she had a strong influence over the people and the clergy. He would have it that Maria supported her uncle's military coup d'etat and she prompted him to blind the legitimate Emperor John IV Laskaris, who was brother of Bulgarian empress Irene, second wife of tsar Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria.

根据乔治乌斯·帕西迈利斯的说法，玛丽亚非常心机和狡猾，经常背信弃义，她在人民和神职人员中有着强大的影响力，他认为玛丽亚支持她叔叔的起事，并促成了米哈伊尔八世弄瞎了合法的皇帝约翰四世·拉斯卡里斯的事情，拉斯卡里斯是保加利亚皇帝康斯坦丁·蒂赫的第二任妻子，保加利亚皇后伊琳娜的兄弟。

（译者小注：大致是先教唆自己的叔叔谋害未来丈夫的前任的兄弟，后来成为了未来丈夫的皇后，转过来反对自己的叔叔，成为寡妇后再婚伊瓦伊洛还生了孩子）

保加利亚皇后

康斯坦丁之妻

The deposition and blinding of the minor Nicaean Emperor John IV Laskaris by Michael VIII Palaiologos in 1261 pitted Constantine Tikh, as the brother-in-law of the deposed Emperor, against Michael VIII.

1261年，米哈伊尔八世·巴列奥略废黜并刺瞎了尼西亚皇帝约翰四世·拉斯卡里斯，这件事使得被废黜皇帝的姐夫康斯坦丁·蒂赫与米哈伊尔八世对立。

After the death of tsarina Irene Laskarina in 1268 Constantine Tikh sought a reconciliation with Michael VIII by proposing to marry a Byzantine princess related to Palaiologos, and Michael VIII offered his niece Maria. Maria had one previous marriage, to Alexios Philes, and Constantine Tikh had two. As a condition for the marriage alliance, the Black Sea ports of Mesembria and Anchialos were to be handed over as her dowry.

1268年，沙皇皇后伊琳娜·拉斯卡里娜去世后，康斯坦丁·蒂赫与米哈伊尔八世达成和解，并提议与一位和巴列奥略家族有血缘关系的拜占庭公主结婚，米哈伊尔八世向他介绍了侄女玛丽亚。玛丽亚曾与阿列克谢·菲勒斯结过一次婚，跟康斯坦丁·蒂赫二婚。作为联姻条件，梅森布里亚和安切洛斯的黑海港口将作为玛丽亚的嫁妆移交给她。

Maria and Constantine Tikh married in 1269. However, quarrels over the surrender of Maria's promised dowry soured the improved relationship. Maria realized that the behaviour of her uncle would undermine her position in the Bulgarian court, so she openly put up her husband to attack Michael VIII. The Bulgarian government entered into an alliance with King Charles I of Sicily who was planning a campaign against Michael VIII with the object of restoring the Latin Empire. Michael VIII responded by marrying his illegitimate daughter Euphrosyne Palaiologina to Nogai Khan of the Golden Horde, who, as a Byzantine ally, pillaged Bulgaria in 1274.

玛丽亚和康斯坦丁·蒂赫于1269年结婚。然而，由于先前承诺给玛丽亚的土地嫁妆没有兑现，康斯坦丁和米哈伊尔八世发生争执，双方关系恶化。玛丽亚意识到她叔叔的行为会损害她在保加利亚宫廷里的地位，因此她公开支持丈夫去攻击米哈伊尔八世。保加利亚与西西里国王查理一世结盟，查理一世计划一场反对米哈伊尔八世的运动，目的是恢复拉丁帝国。作为回应，米哈伊尔八世将他的私生女尤弗罗新·巴列奥略嫁给了金帐汗国的那海汗。那海汗作为拜占庭的盟友，于1274年掠夺了保加利亚。（第一关过场剧情所提到的“康斯坦丁迎娶了罗马皇帝的侄女，甚至促成了罗马统治者的女儿与蒙古独眼大汗的联姻”）

垂帘听政

In the last years of his reign, Constantine Tikh was partly paralyzed from a fall off his horse, and suffered from unspecified ailments. The government was firmly in the hands of Maria Kantakouzene, who crowned their son Michael Asen II co-Emperor soon after his birth, in about 1272. As such, she acted in his behalf as regent. Maria presided over relations with the Byzantine Empire in the 1270s, and engineered first the submission and then the murder (by poison) of the despotēs Yakov Svetoslav of Vidin, a strong pretender for the Bulgarian crown, in 1275. The tsarina invited Yakov Svetoslav to Tarnovo, promising to adopt him and to allow him to participate in the governing of the country. In 1275 Yakov Svetoslav arrived at Tarnovo and he indeed proclaimed as the second son of Maria in an official ceremony, officiated by patriarch Ignatiy of Bulgaria. Yakov died soon after his return to Vidin. George Pachymeres accused Maria for his death.

在康斯坦丁·蒂赫统治晚期，他因从马上摔下来而部分截瘫，并患有不明疾病。朝廷牢牢掌握在玛丽亚·坎塔库泽努斯的手中，大约在1272年，他们的儿子米哈伊尔·阿森二世出生后不久，她就为儿子加冕为联合皇帝。她从而以摄政的身份代表他垂帘听政。玛丽亚在13世纪70年代主持了与拜占庭帝国的关系，并于1275年策划并毒死了维丁的雅各布·斯维托斯拉夫，皇后邀请雅各布·斯维托斯拉夫到大特尔诺沃，承诺收养他并允许他参与国家治理。1275年，雅各布·斯维托斯拉夫抵达大特尔诺沃，并在保加利亚牧首伊格纳蒂主持的正式仪式上宣布成为玛丽亚的次子。雅各布回到维丁后不久便去世了。乔治乌斯·帕西迈利斯认为他的死亡和玛丽亚有关。

Due to the expensive and unsuccessful wars, repeated Mongol raids, and economic instability, Maria's government was faced with a revolt in 1277; the Uprising of Ivaylo. What is clear is that a swineherd or swine-owner named Ivaylo became a leader of the discontented and attracted many (presumably mostly lower-class) followers, asserting his control over a significant area. Tsar Constantine set out against Ivaylo with his guard, but was decisively defeated and slain in his chariot in 1277. Ivaylo himself is credited with the killing. Although he was able to extend his authority across much of the country, he also met with resistance, and the capital Tarnovo remained under the control of the legitimate Emperor Michael Asen II and his mother Maria Kantakouzene.

由于穷兵黩武（第一关剧情提到“新王给保加利亚带来和平”，大雾）、蒙古的多次袭击和经济不稳定，玛丽亚朝廷在1277年面临叛乱——伊瓦伊洛起义。（保加利亚战役的主要剧情）很明显的是，一个名叫伊瓦伊洛的猪倌或养猪主成为了不满情绪的领袖，吸引了许多（许多人大概是是下层阶级）追随者，声称他控制了一个重要地区。康斯坦丁带着他的卫队出发对决伊瓦伊洛，但被彻底击败，并在他的战车中被杀。（伊瓦伊洛第一关结尾剧情，因为bibi太多伊瓦伊洛，所以反派死于话多，大雾） 伊瓦伊洛本人被认为是杀害沙皇的凶手。尽管伊瓦伊洛能够将他的势力扩展到全国大部分地区，但他也遇到了阻力，首都大特尔诺沃仍在合法皇帝米哈伊尔·阿森二世及其太后玛丽亚·坎塔库泽努斯的控制之下。

猪倌之妇

Ivaylo's successes troubled the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, who married his eldest daughter Irene to Ivan Asen III, a descendant of Bulgaria's ruling dynasty living at the Byzantine court, and dispatched troops to place him on the throne. This caused an alliance between Ivaylo and Maria Kantakouzena, and the widowed empress married Ivaylo, who was recognized as Bulgarian Emperor in 1278, without deposing or disinheriting the minor Michael Asen II. Maria's decision was defined by Byzantines as "indecent" and "impure", because she, a descendant of the noble Palaiologos and Kantakouzenos families, had married a swineherd, who had moreover killed her husband. In this connection Michael VIII declared openly that Maria "had brought disgrace on her family" and she "had destroyed her kingdom".

伊瓦伊洛的成功令拜占庭皇帝米哈伊尔八世忧心忡忡。拜占庭皇帝将长女埃伦娜嫁给了居住在拜占庭宫廷的伊凡·阿森三世，他是保加利亚皇室的后裔。拜占庭皇帝派遣军队助其登基上位。这使得了伊瓦伊洛和玛丽亚·坎塔库泽努斯结成联盟（第二关“最不可能的联盟”），1278年，这位寡居的皇后与被“认为”的沙皇的伊瓦伊洛结婚，而伊瓦伊洛并未废除或剥夺未成年的米哈伊尔·阿森二世的继承权。玛丽亚的决定被拜占庭人定义为“不雅”和“不纯洁”的行为，因为她是高贵的巴列奥略家族和坎塔库泽努斯家族的后代，竟嫁给了一个猪倌，而这个猪倌还杀害了她的前任丈夫。在这方面，米哈伊尔八世公开宣称玛丽亚给她的家族带来了耻辱，他还声称玛丽亚还“摧毁了她的王国”。

The marriage of Ivaylo and Maria was unhappy. Pachymeres says that Ivaylo hated her endearments and he even had beaten Maria.Although Ivaylo proved to be an abusive husband, he led a successful defense of the Balkan passes against the Byzantine campaigns to establish Ivan Asen III on the Bulgarian throne. Ivaylo had also met with success against casual Mongol raids, but in 1279 a major Mongol army blockaded him in the fortress of Dorostolon (Silistra) on the Danube for three months. A rumor of Ivaylo's death caused panic in Tarnovo, where the nobility surrendered to a new Byzantine army and accepted Ivan Asen III as Emperor. Ivan Asen III was enthroned, while Michael Asen II and Maria Kantakouzena, who was pregnant by Ivaylo, were sent into exile to Constantinople.

伊瓦伊洛和玛丽亚的婚姻不是很幸福。帕西迈利斯说，伊瓦伊洛憎讨厌她的爱侣（指康斯坦丁沙皇），甚至殴打了玛丽亚。尽管伊瓦伊洛对玛丽亚有家暴倾向，但他领导了一场巴尔干某个关卡的保卫战，打赢了和拜占庭傀儡沙皇伊凡·阿森三世想要争夺保加利亚王位的战役。（应该是伊瓦伊洛战役第二关“最不可能的联盟”或第四关“英雄之乱”的剧情）伊瓦伊洛也成功地抵抗了蒙古人的突然袭击，但在1279年，他被一支蒙古大军围困在多瑙河上的德拉斯达要塞三个月（游戏原文是Drastar，百科上写的是Dorostolon，又称多罗斯托隆，今保加利亚城市锡利斯特拉，在伊瓦伊洛很久之前也有一场多罗斯托隆围城战，这里讲的是伊瓦伊洛战役第三关“保加利亚沙皇”的剧情），关于伊瓦伊洛战死的传闻在大特尔诺沃引起恐慌，波雅尔们向新入驻的拜占庭军队投降，并接受伊凡·阿森三世为沙皇。伊凡·阿森三世登基，而米哈伊尔·阿森二世和已经怀上伊瓦伊洛的孩子的玛丽亚·坎塔库泽努斯则被俘虏并流放到君士坦丁堡。（伊瓦伊洛第三关的结尾剧情）

Maria Kantakouzene and Ivaylo had an unnamed daughter.

玛丽亚·坎塔库泽努斯和伊瓦伊洛有一个没有记载名字的女儿。（即伊瓦伊洛开场剧情中听玛丽亚讲述故事的那个“孩子”）

珠殒

 In 1294,Maria Kantakouzene died in Constantinople.

玛丽亚·坎塔库泽努斯于1294年在君士坦丁堡去世。