Certainty: 3 Report of Eustathios Romaios on the validity of the marriage of Nikolaos & Eudokia
Nikolaos and Eudokia were joined in an established marriage. Niketas Bothyrites maliciously tried to upset their union by claiming that it was within the forbidden degrees. Eustathios Romaios heard the case, and in his hypomnema, written as patrikios, he defended the marriage. Here were not two cousins marrying two cousins, since in a previous generation Maria's betrothal to Kosmas had been broken at his death