Irene

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Origins

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DEMETRIOS Tornikes, son of --- Tornikes & his wife --- (-[Jan] 1201 or 1202). … m --- Malakissa, sister of EUTHYMIOS Malakes, daughter of --- Malakes & his wife ---. Euthymios Tornikes wrote a eulogy for the "hypertime de Néopatras (Euthymios Malakès)"[875], which confirms that the deceased was his uncle[876].

Demetrios & his wife had [four] children:

4. [EIRENE] (-[18 Nov] [1183/85]). The necrology of Speyer cathedral records the death "VI Kal Sep" of "Maria regina Philippi regis contectalis, nata de Grecia" and the donations which she made to found the anniversaries "in octava Martini [18 Nov]…patris eius et matris eius…Ysaac et matre Herina" and "fratris…eius et sororis eius tercia die post festum Michahelis [1 Oct]…Manuel fratre, Effrosina sorore"[891]. This entry is discussed by Hiestand[892]. Bearing in mind the estimated date of death of Emperor Isaakios (see above), it is possible that 18 Nov commemorates the death of [Eirene], although it is also possible that the date commemorates some other family event. There remains some doubt about whether "Eirene" can have been the name of Isaakios's first wife as the original baptismal name of her daughter, "Maria regina", is also recorded as Eirene, the Byzantine naming practice not normally being to name children after their parents. One possibility is that [Eirene] died while giving birth to Eirene/Maria, as naming a child after a parent appears to have been acceptable practice in those circumstances. If that is correct, it is unlikely that [Eirene] died later than [1184] considering her daughter´s first marriage in 1192. Her family relationship with the Tornikes family is indicated by a document at Patmos which names Konstantinos Tornikes as uncle ("θείου") of Emperor Alexios IV, dated to Dec 1203[893]. While the passage would not exclude Konstantinos being the husband either of a maternal or paternal aunt of the emperor, or indeed a more remote relation as the word "θείος" could indicate a family relationship which is more distant than "uncle". Don Stone and Charles Owens, in their detailed analysis of all the relevant sources, argue convincingly that the most likely interpretation is that Konstantinos Tornikes was Emperor Alexios´s maternal uncle[894].

m (before 1181) as his first wife, ISAAKIOS Angelos, son of ANDRONIKOS Dukas Angelos & his wife Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa ([1155]-Constantinople in prison [28 Jan/12 Apr] 1204). He succeeded in 1185 as Emperor ISAAKIOS II.]

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Family

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6. ISAAKIOS Angelos ([1155]-Constantinople in prison [28 Jan/12 Apr] 1204). … m firstly (before [1181]%29 [EIRENE] Tornikaina, daughter of DEMETRIOS Tornikes & his wife --- Malakissa (-[18 Nov] [1183/85]). … m secondly (1185) as her first husband, MARGIT of Hungary, daughter of BÉLA III King of Hungary & his first wife Agnès [Anna] de Châtillon-sur-Loing (1175-after 3 Mar 1229).

Emperor Isaakios II & his first wife had [four] children:

• a) EUPHROSYNE (-[1 Oct] - ) The wording of this entry suggests that Euphrosyne predeceased her sister.
• b) ALEXIOS Angelos ([1180/83]-murdered Constantinople 1204 after 28 Jan). Betrothed (1194) to IEVFEMIA Glebovna of Chernigov, daughter of GLEB Sviatoslavich Prince of Bielgorod and Chernigov & his wife [Anastasia] Riurikovna of Ovrutsch.
• c) [daughter. The primary source which confirms her parentage has not been identified. Before 1185. Nun. same person as …? ANNA .
• d) EIRENE Angelina ([1180/84]-Hohenstaufen 27 Aug 1208, bur Kloster Lorsch). m firstly (Brindisi [Jul/Aug] 1192) ROGER joint King of Sicily, son of TANCREDO King of Sicily & his wife Sibilla --- ([1180]-24 Dec 1193). Created Duke of Apulia by his father in 1193. m secondly (betrothed 2/3 Apr 1195, [Bari] 25 May 1197) PHILIPP von Hohenstaufen Duke of Swabia, son of Emperor FRIEDRICH I "Barbarossa" King of Germany & his second wife Béatrice de Bourgogne [Comt%C3%A9] ([1172]-murdered Bamberg 21 Jun 1208, bur Speyer Cathedral).

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Notes

Isaac II Angelos

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Historical reputation

Isaac has the reputation of one of the most unsuccessful princes that occupied the Byzantine throne. Surrounded by a crowd of slaves, mistresses and flatterers, he permitted his empire to be administered by unworthy favourites, while he squandered the money wrung from his provinces on costly buildings and expensive gifts to the churches of his metropolis. During his reign the empire lost Lefkada, Kefallonia, and Zakynthos to the Normans in 1185. Then he lost Bulgaria to the Vlachs and Bulgarians in 1186. After that Cilicia was retaken by the Armenians and Cyprus wrested from the empire by the Franks.

Family

Isaac II's first wife's name, Herina (i.e., Irene), is found on the necrology of Speyer Cathedral, where their daughter Irene is interred.[20] The first wife of Isaac II is usually considered to be a Byzantine noblewoman of unknown name. In an Italian edition of the chronicle of Nicetas Choniates "Greatness and catastrophe of Byzantium" can be found an interesting note to the XIV Book. The names of Isaac II's first wife and eldest daughter, unknown from Byzantine sources, are found in an obituary in the Cathedral of Speyer, the pantheon of German kings. Here, the wife of Philip of Swabia is said to be the daughter of Isaac and Irene (there is reference to the following article: R. Hiestand, Die erste Ehe Isaaks II. Angelos und seine Kinder, in Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinisk, XLVII 1997 pp. 199–208). This Irene could be identified with the daughter of George Paleologus Ducas Comnenus and wife Aspae, Bagratiid Princess of Ossetia; the son of this one, Andronicus Paleologus Comnenoducas is known as gambrox (γαμβρός) of Isaac II. Isaac's wife was possibly daughter of Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (died 1185). A potential foreign origin is also given to her due to having the same name as her daughter, contrary to long-standing Greek custom. Their third child was born in 1182 or 1183 and she was dead or divorced by 1185, when Isaac remarried. Their children were:

1. Anna-Euphrosyne Angelina, married to Roman the Great.
2. Irene Angelina (c. 1181–1208), married first to Roger III of Sicily and secondly to Philip of Swabia. Isaac is the ancestor of all European monarchs now reigning through Irene's children by Philip.
3. Alexios IV Angelos (c. 1182–1204).

By his second wife, Margaret of Hungary (who took the baptismal name "Maria"), Isaac II had two sons:

1. Manuel Angelos (b. after 1195 – d. 1212), he was evidently the elder son, being contemplated in 1205 to ascend the Byzantine throne[21]
2. John Angelos (b. ca. 1193 – d. 1259). He migrated to Hungary and ruled over Syrmia and Bacs (1227–42) as a vassal of king Béla IV of Hungary.

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Hija de Andrónico Comnene, que nació en Balalista, Grecia, en 1108, y murió en 1142. Casó, en 1124, con Irene Aineidasa (nacida después de 1100 y fallecida en Protocrator, Grecia, en 1152. Casó con Isaac II Angelos, emperador de Bizancio: ver Dinastía Angelos.

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Margaret of Hungary

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Not to be confused with Saint Margaret of Hungary.

Margaret (Margit) (1175 – 1223), was the eldest daughter of King Bela III of Hungary and his second wife Agnes of Antioch. Her maternal grandparents were Raynald of Chatillon and Constance of Antioch.

In 1185, Margaret married the Eastern Roman Emperor Isaac II Angelos as his second wife. They had two sons:

1. John (Iōannēs) Angelos.
2. Manuel Angelos.

Her husband died in February, 1204. Later that year the widowed Margaret married Boniface of Montferrat, who was soon to become king of Thessalonica. To Boniface she bore a son Demetrius in 1207. In the same year, on his father's death, Demetrius became king of Thessalonica.

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Her ancestry is not definitely known. She seems to have been related to the Comnenos family. The identification given here is one theory. Isenburg suggests that she was daughter of Adronikos I Comnenus by his third wife Téodôra Kulasina, but this seems to have been disproved. Although Andronicus had two daughters with the name Eirene, they are both otherwise accounted for. See Lindsay L. Brook, "The Byzantine Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales," in The Genealogist (APSG), 2:1 (Spring 1981), pp. 3-51, especially note 19 on p. 39; and M. L. Bierbrier, "Modern Descendants of Byzantine Familes, " in Genealogists' Magazine, 20:3 (September 1980), pp. 85-96, at p. 89 (col. 177).

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References

1. https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00027072&tree=LEO cites
   1. [S00301] Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.), ~Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg. 2:179
   2. [S05047] Stone, Don C; Owens, Charles R (2011), Eirene, 1st wife of Emperor Isaakios II Angelos... Journet of FMG (2011) 3 (5) pp349-50.

Eirene Tornikaina

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4. [EIRENE] (-[18 Nov] [1183/85]). The necrology of Speyer cathedral records the death "VI Kal Sep" of "Maria regina Philippi regis contectalis, nata de Grecia" and the donations which she made to found the anniversaries "in octava Martini [18 Nov]…patris eius et matris eius…Ysaac et matre Herina" and "fratris…eius et sororis eius tercia die post festum Michahelis [1 Oct]…Manuel fratre, Effrosina sorore"[891]. This entry is discussed by Hiestand[892]. Bearing in mind the estimated date of death of Emperor Isaakios (see above), it is possible that 18 Nov commemorates the death of [Eirene], although it is also possible that the date commemorates some other family event. There remains some doubt about whether "Eirene" can have been the name of Isaakios's first wife as the original baptismal name of her daughter, "Maria regina", is also recorded as Eirene, the Byzantine naming practice not normally being to name children after their parents. One possibility is that [Eirene] died while giving birth to Eirene/Maria, as naming a child after a parent appears to have been acceptable practice in those circumstances. If that is correct, it is unlikely that [Eirene] died later than [1184] considering her daughter´s first marriage in 1192. Her family relationship with the Tornikes family is indicated by a document at Patmos which names Konstantinos Tornikes as uncle ("θείου") of Emperor Alexios IV, dated to Dec 1203[893]. While the passage would not exclude Konstantinos being the husband either of a maternal or paternal aunt of the emperor, or indeed a more remote relation as the word "θείος" could indicate a family relationship which is more distant than "uncle". Don Stone and Charles Owens, in their detailed analysis of all the relevant sources, argue convincingly that the most likely interpretation is that Konstantinos Tornikes was Emperor Alexios´s maternal uncle[894].

m (before 1181) as his first wife, ISAAKIOS Angelos, son of ANDRONIKOS Dukas Angelos & his wife Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa ([1155]-Constantinople in prison [28 Jan/12 Apr] 1204). He succeeded in 1185 as Emperor ISAAKIOS II.]

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Isaac II Angelos

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The identity of Isaac II's first wife is unknown, but her name, Herina (i.e., Eirene), is found on the necrology of Speyer Cathedral, where their daughter Irene is interred. (It must be noted, however, that it would have been extremely unusual for a mother and daughter to bear the same name, unless the mother's name was monastic.)[2] Isaac's wife may have been a member of the Palaiologos family.[3] A possible foreign origin is also given to her due to having the same name as her daughter.[4][5] Their third child was born in 1182 or 1183 and she was dead or divorced by 1185, when Isaac remarried. Their children were:

Euphrosyne Angelina, a nun.

Irene Angelina, married first to Roger III of Sicily, and secondly to Philip of Swabia.

Alexios IV Angelos.

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Hija de Andrónico Comnene, que nació en Balalista, Grecia, en 1108, y murió en 1142. Casó, en 1124, con Irene Aineidasa (nacida después de 1100 y fallecida en Protocrator, Grecia, en 1152. Casó con Isaac II Angelos, emperador de Bizancio: ver Dinastía Angelos.

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Margaret of Hungary

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Not to be confused with Saint Margaret of Hungary.

Margaret (Margit) (1175 – 1223), was the eldest daughter of King Bela III of Hungary and his second wife Agnes of Antioch. Her maternal grandparents were Raynald of Chatillon and Constance of Antioch.

In 1185, Margaret married the Eastern Roman Emperor Isaac II Angelos. They had two sons:

John (Iōannēs) Angelos.

Manuel Angelos.

Her husband died in February, 1204. Later that year the widowed Margaret married Boniface of Montferrat, who was soon to become king of Thessalonica. To Boniface she bore a son Demetrius in 1207. In the same year, on his father's death, Demetrius became king of Thessalonica.

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The identity of Byzantine Emperor Isaac II's first wife is unknown, but her name, Herina (i.e., Eirene), is found on the necrology of Speyer Cathedral, where their daughter Irene is interred. (It must be noted, however, that it would have been extremely unusual for a mother and daughter to bear the same name, unless the mother's name was monastic.)

Herina may have been a member of the Palaiologos family. A possible foreign origin is also given to her due to having the same name as her daughter. Their third child was born in 1182 or 1183, and Herina was dead or divorced by 1185, when Isaac remarried to Margaret of Hungary.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_II_Angelus for more information.

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Her ancestry is not definitely known. She seems to have been related to the Comnenos family. The identification given here is one theory. Isenburg suggests that she was daughter of Adronikos I Comnenus by his third wife Téodôra Kulasina, but this seems to have been disproved. Although Andronicus had two daughters with the name Eirene, they are both otherwise accounted for. See Lindsay L. Brook, "The Byzantine Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales," in The Genealogist (APSG), 2:1 (Spring 1981), pp. 3-51, especially note 19 on p. 39; and M. L. Bierbrier, "Modern Descendants of Byzantine Familes, " in Genealogists' Magazine, 20:3 (September 1980), pp. 85-96, at p. 89 (col. 177).