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The couple, who married in c. 1122 (1110/15 according to Polemis), had four sons and three daughters, of whom two, John and Andronikos (the father of the future emperors Isaac II Angelos and Alexios III Angelos), preferred to use their grandmother's far more prestigious surname of Doukas to their father's surname.
Isaac II Angelos John Doukas John Kantakouzenos Alexios Branas. The Uprising of Asen and Peter ( Bulgarian: Въстание на Асен и Петър) was a revolt of Bulgarians and Vlachs [1] [2] living in Moesia and the Balkan Mountains, then the theme of Paristrion of the Byzantine Empire, caused by a tax increase. It began on 26 October ...
Andronikos and his followers took this to mean the young aristocrat Isaac Angelos, and on 11 September, they struck: while the emperor retired to a palace on the Asian suburbs of the city, Hagiochristophorites and his attendants went to Isaac Angelos' house near the Peribleptos Monastery. Isaac at first panicked but then resolved to go down ...
Origin. Born c. 1220, Demetrios was the younger son of Theodore Komnenos Doukas and Maria Petraliphaina. [1] [2] As such he was a great-great-grandson of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos ( r. 1081–1118) and Empress Irene Doukaina, and first cousin once removed of the emperors Isaac II Angelos ( r. 1185–1195, 1203–1204) and Alexios ...
Isaac II Angelos or Angelus (Greek: Ἰσαάκιος Β’ Ἄγγελος, Isaakios II Angelos; September 1156 – January 1204) was Byzantine Emperor from 1185 to 1195, and again from 1203 to 1204. His father Andronikos Doukas Angelos was a military leader in Asia Minor (c. 1122 – aft. 1185) who married Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa (c. 1125 – aft. 1195). Andronikos Doukas Angelos was the ...
Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angelos and thus a descendant of Alexios I Komnenos, married Philip of Swabia (1177–1208), the King of Germany. From this union many of the royal and aristocratic families of Western Europe can trace a line of descent. Family tree of the House of Komnenos
Theodora Komnene ( Greek: Θεοδώρα Κομνηνή; born 15 January 1096) was a Byzantine noblewoman, being the fourth daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. She married Constantine Angelos, by whom she had seven children. Byzantine emperors Alexios III Angelos and Isaac II Angelos were her grandsons, thereby making her ...
