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Isaac Doukas Komnenos (or Ducas Comnenus, [a] c. 1155 – 1195/1196) was a claimant to the Byzantine Empire and the ruler of Cyprus from 1185 to 1191. Contemporary sources commonly refer to him as the emperor of Cyprus. He lost the island to King Richard I of England during the Third Crusade .
Isaac al II-lea Angelos (în greacă Ισαάκιος Β’ Άγγελος, născut în septembrie 1156, mort în ianuarie 1204) este un împărat bizantin (1185-1195 și 1203-1204). Era fiul lui Andronic Angelos și al Eufrosinei Kastamonides și strănepot al lui Alexios I Comnen .
Andronikos Doukas Angelos was the son of Constantine Angelos and Theodora Komnene (b. 15 January 1096/1097), the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. Thus Isaac was a member of the extended imperial clan of the Komnenoi. Isaac II Angelos or Angelus was Byzantine Emperor from 1185 to 1195, and co-Emperor with his ...
Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa. Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa ( Greek: Εύφροσύνη Κασταμονίτισσα) was a Byzantine noblewoman of the Kastamonites family, a wife of Andronikos Doukas Angelos (a cousin of the ruling Komnenos dynasty) and mother of the two future Byzantine emperors from the Angelos family: Isaac II Angelos and Alexios ...
Byzantine emperors Alexios III Angelos and Isaac II Angelos were her grandsons, thereby making her an ancestor of the Angelos dynasty. Family[edit] Theodora was born in Constantinople at 3 after midnight on 15 January 1096, the fourth of the five daughters, and seventh child overall, of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) and Irene ...
Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa. Isaac II Angelos or Angelus ( Greek: Ισαάκιος Β’ Άγγελος, 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 ...
Quick Reference. Emperor (1185–95, 1203–04); born ca.1156, died Constantinople 28/9 Jan. 1204. He had a bookish education (Nik.Chon. 365.72–74) but no deep intellectual interests. After he resisted the order of arrest issued ... From: Isaac II Angelos in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ». Subjects: History — Early history (500 CE to ...
