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Encyclopedia > Theodora Angelina

Theodora Angelina was the only daughter of Anna Angelina and Isaac Comnenus Sebastocrator. Her maternal grandparents were Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina. Anna Angelina was a daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios III Angelos and of Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera. ... This is a list of Byzantine Emperors. ... Alexius III Angelus, Byzantine emperor, was the second son of Andronicus Angelus, nephew of Alexius I. In 1195, while his brother Isaac II was away hunting in Thrace, he was proclaimed emperor by the troops; he captured Isaac at Stagira in Macedonia, put out his eyes, and kept him henceforth... Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina (c. ...


Theodora was first married, in 1197, to Ivanko, leader of the Vlachs and Bulgarians. Her father had died in Vlach-Bulgarian captivity not many months earlier. Ivanko (Bulgarian: ) killed Ivan Asen I, ruler of the renascent Second Bulgarian Empire, in 1196. ...


A few years later she became one of the wives of a rival warlord, Dobromir, leader of the Vlachs and Bulgarians.


Later, after the Fourth Crusade brought about the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, Theodora married Leopold VI, Duke of Austria. Leopold and Theodora had seven children (according to Varzos, cited below): The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (Eugène Delacroix, 1840). ... Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent c. ... Leopold VI, the Glorious (1176 – July 28, 1230 in San Germano), from the House of Babenberg, was Duke of Austria from 1198 to 1230 and of Styria from 1194 to 1230. ...

  1. Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1201 - June 15, 1246).
  2. Margaret, Duchess of Austria (1204 - February 28, 1266). Married firstly with Henry, elder son and pressumptive heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and when he died, she married with the King Ottokar II of Bohemia.
  3. Agnes of Austria (February 19, 1205 - August 29, 1226). Married Albert II, Duke of Saxony.
  4. Leopold of Austria (1207 - 1216).
  5. Henry of Austria (1208 - November 28, 1228). Married Agnes of Turingia; their only daughter, Gertrudis, was the general heiress of the house of Babenberg after the death of his uncle.
  6. Gertrude of Austria (1210 - 1241). Married Henry IV Raspe, Landgrave of Turingia.
  7. Constance of Austria (April 6, 1212 - June 5, 1243). Married Heinrich III of Meißen.

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Sources

  • O city of Byzantium: annals of Niketas Choniates tr. Harry J. Magoulias (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984).
  • K. Varzos, I genealogia ton Komninon (Thessalonica, 1984).

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