Εἰρήνη (Angelos) Ἀγγελίνα (abt. 1184 - 1208)

Born about 1184 in Κωνσταντινούπολη, Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Ruggero (Altavilla) di Altavilla — married [date unknown] in Palermo, Sicilia, Italy

Wife of Philipp (Staufer) von Schwaben — married 1197 in Germany

Descendants

Died 27 Aug 1208 at about age 24 in Burg Hohenstaufen, Herzogtum Schwaben, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Biography

Eirene Angelina "Maria" (1180/4 - 27 Aug 1208 Hohenstaufen).[2]

bur. Kloster Lorsch

Eirene is the daughter of emperor Isaakios II (1155 - 28 Jan/12 Apr 1204).[3]. She married twice, and adopted the name "Maria," during her second marriage.[4]

• In 1194, Henry, king of Sicily, claimed from the empire the restitution of all the country between Durazzo and Salonica. Irene, daughter of Isaac, was detained in Sicily as a hostage for the satisfaction of this claim. ^[1]

Marriage

m.1 Roger, joint king of Sicily and Duke of Apulia (b. c. 1180 - d. 24 Dec 1193 d.v.p). No issue.

m.2 (25 May 1197) Philipp von Staufen, Duke of Swabia and King of Germany (Feb/Mar 1777 - 21 Jun 1208), son of Friedrich Barbarossa and Béatrice de Bourgogne.[5] Issue: 7.[6]

• Beatrix (Apr/Jun 1198 Worms - 11 Aug 1212 Nordhausen)

m. (22 Jul 1212 Nordhausen) Emperor Otto IV (1175/82 - 19 May 1218), son of Heinrich "der Löwe" Welf, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria and Matilda of England.

• Maria (1199/1200 - ante 1235 Louvain).

m. (ante 22 Aug 1215) Henri II, Duke of Brabant

• (unproven) Reinald "died young"

• Kunigunde

m. (1228) Wenzel of Bohemia

• Elisabeth "Beatriz"

m. don Fernando III "el Santo," King of Castile

• (unproven) Friedrich

• (unproven) Beatrix "died young" (born and died on 20/27 Aug 1208)

Sources

1. ↑ Pears, Edwin. The Fall of Constantinople, Being the Story of the Fourth Crusade. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1886, p. 143. [1]

• Maria Magdalena Rückert, Irene-Maria, Gemahlin Philipps von Schwaben, und ihre Kinder, in Frauen der Staufer, Schriften zur staufischen Geschichte und Kunst Band 25, Göppingen : Stadtarchiv und Gesellschaft für staufische Geschichte, 2006, pp. 74-89

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Angelina