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Empress consort of Nicaea
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]
Life
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
Anna and Isaac had one daughter:
Anna and Theodore had three daughters and two short-lived sons:
References
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ISBN
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^ Lachowicz, Paweł (2021-12-30).
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doi :
10.18778/2084-140x.11.14 .
hdl :
11089/41525 .
ISSN
2449-8378 .
^ Angelov, Dimiter (August 2019).
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ISBN
978-1-108-48071-0 .
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a
b Garland, Lynda (2002-01-04).
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ISBN
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^ Dendrinos, Charalambos; Giarenis, Ilias (2021-06-08).
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ISBN
978-3-11-071849-2 .
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doi :
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ISSN
0350-1892 .
^ 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 .
Sources
Varzos, Konstantinos (1984).
Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών [The Genealogy of the Komnenoi ] (PDF) (in Greek). Vol. B. Thessaloniki:
Centre for Byzantine Studies, University of Thessaloniki .
OCLC
834784665 .
Choniates, Nicetas (1984).
O City of Byzantium, Annals of Niketas Choniatēs . Translated by Harry J. Magoulias. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
ISBN
0-8143-1764-2 . , pages 259, 274, and 280.
Angold, Michael (2011). "The Latin Empire of Constantinople, 1204–1261: Marriage Strategies".
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ISBN
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Ostrogorsky, George (1956).
History of the Byzantine State . Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
External links
Principate 27 BC – AD 235
Crisis 235–285
Dominate 284–610
Eastern/ Byzantine Empire 610–1453 See also Italics indicates a consort to a junior co-emperor, underlining indicates a consort to an emperor variously regarded as either legitimate or a usurper, and bold incidates an empress regnant.