- Theodora Angelina
Theodora Angelina was the only daughter of
Anna Angelina andIsaac Comnenus "Sebastocrator". Her maternal grandparents wereByzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus andEuphrosyne 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, leader of Bulgarians.
Later, after the
Fourth Crusade brought about the collapse of theByzantine Empire , Theodora marriedLeopold VI, Duke of Austria . Leopold and Theodora had seven children (according to Varzos, cited below):
#Margaret, Duchess of Austria (1204 -February 28 ,1266 ). Married firstly with Henry, elder son and pressumptive heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and when he died, she married with the KingOttokar II of Bohemia .
# Agnes of Austria (February 19 ,1205 -August 29 ,1226 ). MarriedAlbrecht I, Duke of Saxony .
# Leopold of Austria (1207 -1216 ).
#Henry of Austria (1208 -November 28 ,1228 ). MarriedAgnes of Turingia ; their only daughter, Gertrudis, was the general heiress of the house of Babenberg after the death of his uncle.
# Gertrude of Austria (1210 -1241 ). MarriedHenry IV Raspe, Landgrave of Turingia .
#Frederick II, Duke of Austria (25 April 1211 -June 15 ,1246 ).
# Constance of Austria (April 6 ,1212 -June 5 ,1243 ). MarriedHeinrich III of Meißen .ources
*"O city of Byzantium: annals of Niketas Choniates" tr. Harry J. Magoulias (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984).
*K. Varzos, "I genealogia ton Komninon" (Thessalonica, 1984).
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