Theodora Angelina was the wife of Leopold VI of Austria

Leopold VI, Duke of Austria

Leopold VI , called the Glorious, from the House of Babenberg, was Duke of Austria from 1198 to 1230 and of Styria from 1194 to 1230....

, by whom she had several children.

Birth and parentage and early life

Theodora is believed to have been born sometime around 1180/5 in Constantinople

Constantinople

Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...

 to parents whose identities are uncertain. However, it is known that one of her grandmothers was a daughter of a Byzantine Emperor. As such, Theodora may have been a daughter of John Doukas

John Doukas

John Doukas or Ducas , was the eldest son of Constantine Angelos by Theodora Komnene, the seventh child of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina, from whose family name John Doukas took his own.-Career:Doukas is first attested in an imperial document in 1166...

 (son of Andronikos Angelos) or else a daughter of one of Andronikos Angelos daughters.

Marriage and later life

In 1203, Theodora married a distant cousin, Leopold VI of Austria

Leopold VI, Duke of Austria

Leopold VI , called the Glorious, from the House of Babenberg, was Duke of Austria from 1198 to 1230 and of Styria from 1194 to 1230....

. Her husband died in 1230 and she subsequently became a nun. She died in 1246.

Leopold and Theodora had seven children:

1. Margaret, Duchess of Austria
   Margaret, Duchess of Austria
   Margaret of Austria , was a Queen Consort of the Romans 1225–35, titular Duchess of Austria in 1252–60, and Queen consort of Bohemia 1253–60....
   
    (1204 - February 28, 1266). Married firstly with Henry
   Henry (VII) of Germany
   Henry was King of Sicily from 1212, Duke of Swabia from 1216, and King of Germany from 1220. He was the son and co-king of Emperor Frederick II and elder brother of Conrad IV of Germany...
   
   , elder son and heir presumptive
   Heir Presumptive
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    of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and when he died, she married with the King Ottokar II of Bohemia
   Ottokar II of Bohemia
   Ottokar II , called The Iron and Golden King, was the King of Bohemia from 1253 until 1278. He was the Duke of Austria , Styria , Carinthia and Carniola also....
   
   .
2. Agnes of Austria (February 19, 1205 - August 29, 1226). Married Albrecht I, Duke of Saxony.
3. Leopold of Austria (1207 - 1216).
4. Henry of Austria (1208 - November 28, 1228). Married Agnes of Thuringia; their only daughter, Gertrudis, was the general heiress of the house of Babenberg after the death of her uncle.
5. Gertrude of Austria (1210 - 1241). Married Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia.
6. Frederick II, Duke of Austria
   Frederick II, Duke of Austria
   Frederick II, known as the Quarrelsome or the Warlike , from the House of Babenberg, was the duke of Austria and Styria from 1230 to 1246....
   
    (25 April 1211 - June 15, 1246).
7. Constantia of Austria (April 6, 1212 - June 5, 1243). Married Henry III of Meißen
   Henry III, Margrave of Meissen
   Henry III, called Henry the Illustrious from the House of Wettin was Margrave of Meissen and last Margrave of Lusatia from 1221 until his death; from 1242 also Landgrave of Thuringia.-Life:Born probably at the Albrechtsburg residence in Meissen, Henry was the youngest son of Margrave Theodoric I...
   
   .