[3] Some Greek sources state instead that she was married to the Prince of Wallachia Matei Basarab, but this is likely an error.
[4] Alexandra contracted smallpox just days before the wedding, which cost her her one eye and disfigured her face.
[7] The marriage produced eight children, five boys and three girls: Ioannis (1633), Skarlatos (1636), Kokona (1638), Georgios (1639), Konstantinos (1640), [[Alexander Mavrokordatos the Exaporite|Alexandros (1641), Mariora (1642), and Zoitza (1653).
[9][10] After two unhappy marriages, she became the first Greek woman to start a salon in the Ottoman Empire.
[11] Christian Greeks were not obliged to obey the Islamic laws of restriction in contacts between the sexes, which made a literary salon possible.