Anna Komnene Angelina or Comnena Angelina (Greek: Άννα Κομνηνή Αγγελίνα; c. 1176 – 1212) (not to be confused with Anna Komnene) was Empress consort of Nicaea.[1] She was the daughter of emperor Alexios III Angelos and of Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera.[2]

Anna Komnene Angelina
Empress consort of Nicaea
Tenure1205–1212
Bornc. 1176
Died1212
SpousesIsaac Komnenos
Theodore I Laskaris
Issue
DynastyAngelos
FatherAlexios III Angelos
MotherEuphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera

Life

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Her first marriage was to the sebastokratōr Isaac Komnenos Vatatzes, a great-nephew of the emperor Manuel I Komnenos.[3][4][5] They had one daughter, Theodora Angelina. Soon after Anna's father became emperor, in 1195, Isaac Komnenos was dispatched to combat the Uprising of Asen and Peter. He was captured, became a pawn between rival Bulgarian and Vlach factions, and died while imprisoned.[6][7]

Her second marriage to Theodore Laskaris, future emperor of Nicaea, was celebrated in a double wedding in late 1199/early 1200 (the other couple was Anna's sister Irene and Alexios Palaiologos).[8][9][10] In 1205, Theodore Laskaris became emperor of Nicaea.

Anna Angelina died in 1212.[7]

Issue

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Anna and Isaac had one daughter:

Anna and Theodore had three daughters and two short-lived sons:

References

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  1. ^ Sainty, Guy Stair (2018-12-01). The Constantinian Order of Saint George: and the Angeli, Farnese and Bourbon families which governed it. Boletín Oficial del Estado. ISBN 978-84-340-2506-6.
  2. ^ Setton, Kenneth M.; Wolff, Robert Lee; Hazard, Harry W. (1969). A History of the Crusades. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-04844-0.
  3. ^ Arsdall, Anne Van; Moody, Helen (2018-12-07). The Old French Chronicle of Morea: An Account of Frankish Greece after the Fourth Crusade. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-79746-2.
  4. ^ Angelov, Dimiter (August 2019). The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-48071-0.
  5. ^ Lachowicz, Paweł (2021-12-30). "The Title Hierarchy of the Last Komnenoi and the Angelos Dynasty – from Sebastohypertatos to Sebastokrator". Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe. 11: 283–300. doi:10.18778/2084-140x.11.14. hdl:11089/41525. ISSN 2449-8378.
  6. ^ Angelov, Dimiter (August 2019). The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-48071-0.
  7. ^ a b Garland, Lynda (2002-01-04). Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-75639-1.
  8. ^ Dendrinos, Charalambos; Giarenis, Ilias (2021-06-08). Bibliophilos: Books and Learning in the Byzantine World. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-071849-2.
  9. ^ Vesevska, Irena Teodora (2021). "A rare Βyzantine lead seal from medieval Βučin". Годишен зборник на Филозофскиот факултет/The Annual of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. 74: 183–194. doi:10.37510/godzbo2174183v. ISSN 0350-1892.
  10. ^ Duffy, John; Angelov, Dimiter G. (2000). "Observations on a Byzantine Manuscript in Harvard College Library". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 100: 501–514. doi:10.2307/3185235. ISSN 0073-0688. JSTOR 3185235.

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Anna Komnene Angelina
Born: c. 1176 Died: 1212
Royal titles
Preceded by Empress consort of Nicaea
1204–1212
Succeeded by