Maria of Taranto

Maria of Taranto (1301/1304–1368) was a daughter of Philip I of Taranto by his first wife, Thamar Angelina Komnene, daughter of the despot of Epirus.

She became abbess of the Cistercian nunnery of San Benedetto at Conversano in Apulia, the so-called Monstrum Apuliae, a privileged abbey whose abbess was uniquely entitled to the mitre and crozier. She died in 1368 and was buried in the church of Montevergine in Naples.