Theodora Angelina (daughter of Isaac Komnenos)
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Theodora Angelina was the only daughter of Anna Angelina
and the sebastocrator Isaac Comnenus . Her maternal grandparents were Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina.
Theodora was first married, in 1197, to Ivanko
, leader of the Bulgarians. Her father had died in Bulgarian captivity not many months earlier.
A few years later she became one of the wives of a rival warlord, Dobromir Chrysos.
Anna Angelina
Anna Komnene Angelina or Comnena Angelina was a daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios III Angelos and of Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera....
and the sebastocrator Isaac Comnenus . Her maternal grandparents were Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina.
Theodora was first married, in 1197, to Ivanko
Ivanko of Bulgaria
Ivanko killed Ivan Asen I, ruler of the renascent Second Bulgarian Empire, in 1196. The murder occurred when Asen angrily summoned Ivanko to discipline him for having an affair with his wife's sister....
, leader of the Bulgarians. Her father had died in Bulgarian captivity not many months earlier.
A few years later she became one of the wives of a rival warlord, Dobromir Chrysos.
Sources
- O city of Byzantium: annals of Niketas Choniates tr. Harry J. Magoulias (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984).