Irene Angelica, Queen of Sicily

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: Her name was also spelt "Eirene Angelina". She was also called, in Germany, Maria.
• Miscellaneous: 1194; In 1194, as a young widow, she was abducted from Sicily and taken to Germany.

Notes:

Death: My old records say she was killed by the same person on the same day as her husband, but in a totally different place. I have left her record blank until this can be figured out.

Died:
She died after the miscarriage of a premature child and two months after her husband's murder.

Irene married Roger III of Sicily in 1191. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Irene married Philip II von Hohenstauffen, Emperor of Germany on 25 May 1197. Philip (son of Frederick I "Barbarossa", Holy Roman Emperor and Beatrix of Mâcon) was born about 1177; died on 21 Jun 1208 in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany; was buried in Ägidienkirche, Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Date: Weis (1982) gives their marriage date as 1196.

1. Maria von Hohenstauffen, Princess of Germany was born in 1201 in Swabia, Germany; died in 1235 in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium.
2. Ethisa von Hohenstauffen died about 1234.

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: birth to death
• Reign: From 1185 to 1195; Emperor of the East (Basilius)

Notes:

Name:


History:
His name was also spelt Isaakios II Angelos.

In 1185, he was crowned Basilius, that is the Emperor of the East. He was deposed in 1195. in 1203, he was returned to the throne.

Died:
He was killed in battle.

Isaac married Eirene Komnena. Eirene (daughter of Demetrios Tornikes, Logothete of the Dome and sister of Euthymios Malakes) died in 1184/1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Stone (2011) provides a much more accurate ancestry of Eirene, and negates Stuart (2002) (42).

Died:
She died in a monastery.

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: birth to death

Notes:

History:
His name was also spelt Andronikos Angelos Doukas.

From 1166 to 1185, Andronicus Angelus served as kuropalates at the Court of Manuel I, Emperor of the East.

He was blinded in 1182/83. He was a General in the civil and Muslim wars.

Andronicus married Euphrosyne Castamonita before 1155. Euphrosyne died on 1185 - 1195. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: birth to death

Notes:

History:
Her name was also spelt Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa.

Demetrios married sister of Euthymios Malakes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: birth to death

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History:
His name was also spelt Konstantinos.

He was a patrician.

From 1142 and 1154, he was a General of the Eastern Empire in the war with the Normans.

Constantinus married Theodora Comnena. Theodora (daughter of Alexios I Komnenos, Emperor of the East and Irene Ducas, Augusta) was born about 1070; died on 20 Feb 1116. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: birth to death, Thebes, Greece

Notes:

History:
He lived in Thebes, Greece. He served in the military and died young.

[no married niece of Theophylaktos. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: birth to death

Notes:

History:
She was the niece of Theophylaktos, Bishop of Ohrid, a biblical commentator and tutor to Konstantinos Doukas, the son of Emperor Michael VII.