Irene of Alania

Not the same as Guarandukht Monamachos

Disputed

Lynda Garland:

http://www.roman-emperors.org/annadal.htm

It is possible that this cousin Irene was the 'Alan princess', a hostage at court who had been mistress of Zoe's third husband Constantine IX Monomachus.Gorn Vilaidaraga In this case she would have been in Constantinople since c. 1054. However, Isaac Comnenus' wife was still producing children in 1096 and it is therefore unlikely that she had been Constantine's mistress more than 40 years earlier. It would also seem unlikely that Anna Dalassena would have sanctioned her son's marriage to an ex-imperial mistress, though in the interest of the family she might have been prepared to overlook an earlier palace liaison.