Anna Komnene Angelina

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
Tenure	1205–1212
Born	c. 1176
Died	1212
Spouses	Isaac Komnenos Theodore I Laskaris
Issue	Theodora Angelina Nicholas Laskaris John Laskaris Irene Laskarina Maria Laskarina Eudokia Laskarina
Dynasty	Angelos
Father	Alexios III Angelos
Mother	Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera

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:

• 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

References

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. 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.

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". Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 47–68. ISBN 9781409410980.
• Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

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