Eirene Angelina

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Eirene Angelina

Also Known As: "Eirene Komnenos Paleologos Komnenos Angelina"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Byzantium, (Constantinople), Istanbul, Turkey
Death: 1208 (36-45)
Byzantium, (Constantinople), Istanbul, Turkey
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Alexios III, byzantine emperor and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera
Wife of Andronikos Kontostefanos and Alexios III Komnenos Angelos, Byzantine Emperor
Mother of Mikael Palaiologos; Theodora Angelina Komnenos Palaiologos; Maria Comninou-Palaiologou; Maria Palaiologina; Irene Palaiologina and 1 other
Sister of Eudokia Angelina and Anna Lascarina

Occupation: Byzantine Princess
Managed by: Henn Sarv
Last Updated:

About Eirene Angelina

 Alexios III Angelos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios_III_Angelos#Family

By his marriage to Euphrosyne Doucaena Camaterina Alexios had three daughters:

Eirene Angelina, who married

  1. Andronicus Contostephanus, and
  2. Alexius Palaeologus, by whom she was the grandmother of Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus.

-http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZANTIUM%2010571204.htm#EireneAdie...

a) EIRENE Komnene Angelina (-after 1203). Niketas Choniates names "Contostephanus Andronicus et Isaacius Comenus" as "duo generi" of Emperor Alexios[776]. Ephræmius records that "filiarum…Irene natu maior" married "Andronico…de Contostephanis"[777]. Niketas Choniates records the second marriage of "imperator…filias…Irenem" and "Alexio Paleologo"[778]. Georgius Akropolites records that "Palaeologo, qui despotæ dignitate…" married "imperatoris Alexii…filiarum illius…prima Irene"[779]. She went into exile in 1203.

m firstly as his second wife, ANDRONIKOS Kontostefanos, son of STEFANOS Kontostefanos, panhypersébastos, megas doux & his wife Anna Komnene (-[1196]). Mega drongarios.

m secondly (1199) as his second wife, ALEXIOS Komnenos Palaiologos, son of --- Doukas Palaiologos & his wife Eirene Komnene Kantakouzene (-[1201/04]). He was awarded the title despot in 1199.


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Eirene Angelina's Timeline

1167
1167
Byzantium, (Constantinople), Istanbul, Turkey
1190
1190
Of, Saloniki, Makedhonia, Greeze
1204
1204
Turkey
1205
1205
1208
1208
Age 41
Byzantium, (Constantinople), Istanbul, Turkey
1214
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1225