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Irene Palaiologos (Komnene Laskarina Branaina)

Also Known As: "nun Maria"
Birthdate:
Death: circa 1271
Immediate Family:

Daughter of general Branas
Wife of Constantine Angelos Palaiologos, Sebastokrator
Mother of Michael Komnenos Branas Palaiologos; Andronikos Branas Doukas Angelos Palaiologos; Maria Komnene Branaina Laskarina Doukaina Tornikina Palaiologina; sebastos Andronikos Palaiologos and "Smiltsena" Palaiologina

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About Irene Palaiologos

Irene Komnene Laskarina Branaina (Greek: Ειρήνη Κομνηνή Λασκαρίνα Βρανᾶίνα; died around 1271) was a Byzantine noblewoman and wife of sebastokrator Constantine Palaiologos, half-brother of Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. She seems to have followed suit after her husband's retirement to a convent, and taken the monastic name of Maria. She probably died as a nun.

 Marriage and family

Irene was the granddaughter of Byzantine General Theodore Branas and Agnes of France,[1] though the Branas genealogy is poorly recorded.

Irene was married c. 1259/60 to Constantine Palaiologos,[2] by whom he seems to have had five children"[3]

  • Michael Komnenos Branas Palaiologos[4]
  • Andronikos Branas Doukas Angelos Palaiologos[5]
  • Maria Komnene Branaina Laskarina Doukaina Tornikina Palaiologina.[6] Married Isaac Komnenos Doukas Tornikios.[7]
  • Theodora. Married John Komnenos Doukas Angelos Synadenos and had three children. Later became a nun under the name Theodoule.
  • Daughter (name unknown). Married Smilets of Bulgaria.[8]

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

1. EIRENE Komnene Laskarina Branaina ( -[1271] ). Pachymeres records the marriage of "Branæ filiam" and "alterum…fratrum Constantinum…cæsarem" (referring to the future Emperor Mikhael VIII)[948]. An undated seal records “Irène Comnène cæsarissa femme du césar du nom d’Ange”[949]. She became a nun as MARIA.

m ([1259/60]) KONSTANTINOS Angelos Komnenos Doukas Palaiologos, sébastokrator, son of ANDRONIKOS Doukas Komnenos Palaiologos, megas domestikos, doux of Thessaloniki & his first wife Theodora Palaiologina (-1271).


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