Anna Komnene Angelina Explained

Anna Komnene Angelina
Succession:	Empress consort of Nicaea
Reign:	1205–1212
Consort:	yes
Dynasty:	Angelos
Father:	Alexios III Angelos
Mother:	Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera
Spouses:	Isaac Komnenos Theodore I Laskaris
Death Date:	1212

Anna Komnene Angelina or Comnena Angelina (; 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.

Issue

Anna and Isaac had one daughter:

• Theodora Angelina, betrothed to Ivanko, Dobromir Chrysos, and finally Leopold VI, Duke of Austria.

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

• Nicholas Laskaris (died c. 1212)
• John Laskaris (died c. 1212)
• Irene Doukaina Komnene Laskarina, who married first the general Andronikos Palaiologos and then John III Doukas Vatatzes
• Maria Laskarina, who married King Béla IV of Hungary
• Eudokia Laskarina (born between 1210 and 1212, died between 1247 and 1253), engaged to Robert I, Latin Emperor, married firstly and divorced Frederick II, Duke of Austria, secondly (bef. 1230) Anseau de Cayeux, Governor of Asia Minor

Sources

• • , pages 259, 274, and 280.
• Book: Angold, Michael. Michael Angold. The Latin Empire of Constantinople, 1204–1261: Marriage Strategies. Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204. 2011. Farnham. Ashgate Publishing Limited. 47–68. 9781409410980 .
• Book: Ostrogorsky, George. George Ostrogorsky

. George Ostrogorsky. 1956. History of the Byzantine State. Oxford. Basil Blackwell.

Notes and References

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2. Book: Setton . Kenneth M. . A History of the Crusades . Wolff . Robert Lee . Hazard . Harry W. . 1969 . Univ of Wisconsin Press . 978-0-299-04844-0 . en.
3. Book: Arsdall . Anne Van . The Old French Chronicle of Morea: An Account of Frankish Greece after the Fourth Crusade . Moody . Helen . 2018-12-07 . Routledge . 978-1-134-79746-2 . en.
4. Book: Angelov, Dimiter . The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century . August 2019 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-108-48071-0 . en.
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 . 10.18778/2084-140x.11.14 . 2449-8378. 11089/41525 . free .
6. Book: Angelov, Dimiter . The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century . August 2019 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-108-48071-0 . en.
7. Book: Garland, Lynda . Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 . 2002-01-04 . Routledge . 978-1-134-75639-1 . en.
8. Book: Dendrinos . Charalambos . Bibliophilos: Books and Learning in the Byzantine World . Giarenis . Ilias . 2021-06-08 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG . 978-3-11-071849-2 . en.
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 . 10.37510/godzbo2174183v . 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 . 10.2307/3185235 . 3185235 . 0073-0688.