Died unknown Name Theodora Angelina Religion Orthodox | Mother Irene Doukaina Father Alexios I Komnenos House Komnenos | |
Issue John Doukas
Alexios Komnenos Angelos
Andronikos Dukas Angelos
Isaac Angelos
Maria Angelina
Eudokia Angelina
Zoe Angelina Spouse Baldwin III of Jerusalem (m. 1158) Children Andronikos Doukas Angelos, John Doukas, Isaac Angelos Parents Irene Doukaina, Alexios I Komnenos Grandchildren Isaac II Angelos, Theodore Komnenos Doukas Similar People Alexios I Komnenos, Alexios III Angelos, John II Komnenos, Isaac II Angelos, Anna Komnene | ||
Theodora Komnene (Greek: Θεοδώρα Κομνηνὴ; 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 an ancestor of the Angelos dynasty.
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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 Doukaina. In c. 1111 she married Constantine Kourtikes, but her husband died soon after—Theodora is mentioned as a widow in 1118—and the marriage remained childless. In c. 1122, certainly after the death of Alexios I, she married a second time, to Constantine Angelos, a minor noble from Philadelphia. He was exceedingly beautiful, but Empress Irene apparently disapproved of it, and it seems to have soured her relations with Theodora, who is listed last and with the least favourable provisions in the typikon that Irene granted to the Kecharitomene Monastery. Theodora herself is mentioned for the last time in October 1136, and it is unknown when she died. Her husband went on to hold a series of not very successful military commands under Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143–1180). He is last attested in 1166.
Children
Through her second marriage to Constantine Angelos, Theodora had seven children: Through her sons, Theodora was the progenitor of the Angelos dynasty, which produced three Byzantine emperors, as well as the first dynasty of the Despotate of Epirus.
Among her numerous descendants was Irene Angelina, wife of Philip of Swabia; thus Theodora is an ancestress of every modern royal house in Europe.