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Empress consort of Nicaea
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

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

Life

Her first marriage was to the sebastokratōr Isaac Komnenos Vatatzes, a great-nephew of the emperor Manuel I Komnenos. 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.

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). In 1205, "Theodore Laskaris became emperor of Nicaea."

Anna Angelina died in 1212.

Issue

Anna and Isaac had one daughter:

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

References

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  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.

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


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