Anna Palaiologina Angelina

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Anna Palaiologina Angelina

Birthdate:
Death: after 1355
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Daughter of Andronikos Palaiologos Angelos and Kokala
Wife of Jovan II Orsini Kommenos Doukas and Ivan Asen of Bulgaria
Mother of Tomaida Orsini, Komnene Angelina; Nikephoros II Orsini, of Epirus and Komnina, of Bulgaria
Sister of .... Palaiologina Angelina

Managed by: Livio Scremin
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About Anna Palaiologina Angelina

-http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ALBANIA.htm#AnnaPAdiedafter1355

i) ANNA Palaiologina Angelina (-after 1355). Ioannes Kantakuzenus names "Annæ…filiæ protovestiarii" as the wife of "Ioannis despotæ"[90]. Nicephoras Gregoras names "Anna" as wife of "Ioannes…Angelus…Cephalonum comitis"[91]. She poisoned her first husband, becoming regent of Epirus in 1335/1339 and 1341-1342. She was imprisoned in Constantinople 1342/49. The Historia Epiri records that "mater…Thomaidis…eiusque fratris…Anna regina nostra" married "cuidam ex Bulgaris, Comneno tyranno, fratri regis Stephani", adding that he ruled "Caninam et Belgradam"[92].

m firstly ([1328]) IOANNES II Doukas Komnenos Angelos Orsini ex-Count of Kefalonia, Archon of Epirus, despot, son of GIOVANNI Orsini Count of Kefalonia & his wife Maria Komnene Doukaina Angelina (-murdered Arta 1335).

m secondly (before 1355) IVAN Asen Komnenos of Bulgaria, Serbian Governor of Valona, Kanina and Berat, son of STRACIMIR despot & his wife Kereza Petriza of Vidin (-before 13 May 1363).