Anna Palaiologina (daughter of Michael IX) explained

Anna Palaiologina
Death Date:1320
Full Name:Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ἅννα Παλαιολογίνα
Dynasty:Palaiologos
Father:Michael IX Palaiologos
Mother:Rita of Armenia

Anna Palaiologina (died 1320; Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ἅννα Παλαιολογίνα) was a Byzantine princess and queen-consort (basilissa) of the Despotate of Epirus.

She was a daughter of the Byzantine co-emperor Michael IX Palaiologos and his wife, Rita of Armenia. Already in 1304, her hand was sought by the Epirote regent, Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene, for her son Thomas I Komnenos Doukas; the marriage eventually took place in ca. 1307. When Thomas was murdered by his nephew, Nicholas Orsini, in 1318, the latter took Anna as his wife. She died in 1320.

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