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Phrygian dynasty (820-867)

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Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse
Thekla Bardanes Tourkos ? before 803 25 December 820 c. 823 Michael II
Euphrosyne Constantine VI
(Isaurian)
c. 790 c. 823 2 October 829 after 836
Theodora the Armenian
(Θεοδώρα)
Marinos
(Mamikonian)
c. 815 5 June 830 20 January 842 after 867 Theophilos
Eudokia Dekapolitissa ? ? 855 23 September 867 – 24 September 867 ? Michael III
Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse
Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse
Eudokia Ingerina
[1]
(Ευδοκία Ιγγερίνα)
Inger, a Varangian guard
(Martiniakoi)
840 865 26 May 866
as co-empress consort
882 Basil I
24 September 867
as sole-empress consort
Theophano Martiniake
(Θεοφανώ)
Constantine Martiniakos
(Martiniakoi)
- 883 883
as co-empress consort
893/897 10 November 897 Leo VI
29 August 886
as sole-empress consort
Zoe Zaoutzaina
(Ζωή Καρβωνοψίνα)
Stylianos Zaoutzes
(Zaoutzedes)
- 893/897
[2]
May 899
Eudokia Baïana Phrygian origin - Spring 900
[3]
12 April 901
Zoe Karbonopsina - - 9 January 906
[4]
11 May 912 after 919
Helena Lekapene Romanos I Lekapenos
(Lekapenoi)
910 April 919 April 919
as co-empress consort
9 November 959 19 September 961 Constantine VII
27 January 945
as sole-empress consort
Theodora
(Θεοδώρα)
- - before 905 24 September 920
as Caesarissa
20 February 922 Romanos I
17 December 920
as senior empress consort
Sophia Niketas magister - before 919 17 May 921
as co-empress consort
14 August 932 after 959 Christopher Lekapenos
Anna Gabalina ? Gabalos
(Gabaloi)
- 933
as co-empress consort
27 January 945 afterwards ? Stephen Lekapenos
Helena patrikios Hadrian - 939
as co-empress consort
14 January 940 Constantine Lekapenos
Theophano Mamas ? Mamas
(Mamas)
- 939
as co-empress consort
27 January 945 afterwards ?
Eudokia of Italy Hugh of Arles, King of Italy
(Bosonids)
927/30 September 944 6 April 945
as co-empress consort
Autumn 949 Romanos II
Theophano
(Θεοφανώ)
Krateros, an inkeeper 941/943 957 957
as co-empress consort
15 March 963
1st time
after 976
9 November 959
as sole-empress consort
20 September 963
2nd time
10 December 969 Nikephoros II
Theodora Makedones
(Θεοδώρα)
Constantine VII
(Macedonian)
946 November 971 10 January 976 - John I
Helena Alypius - 970s 970s
as co-empress consort
15 November 1028 - Constantine VIII
10 January 976
as only empress but still junior empress consort under Basil II
15 December 1025
as sole empress consort
Zoe Porphyrogenita
(Ζωή)
Constantine VIII
(Macedonian)
978 12 November 1028 15 November 1028
1st time
11 April 1034 June 1050 Romanos III
11 April 1034
2nd time
10 December 1041 Michael IV
11 June 1042
[3]
3rd time
June 1050 Constantine IX
Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse

Komnenid dynasty (1057-1059)

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Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse
Ekaterina of Bulgaria Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
(Comitopuli)
- before 1057 5 June 1057
as rival emperess consort
31 August 1057
as sole emperess consort
22 November 1059 after 1061 Isaac I
Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse

Doukid dynasty (1059-1081)

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Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse
Eudokia Makrembolitissa
(Ευδοκία Μακρεμβολίτισσα)
John Makrembolites
(Makrembolites)
1021 before 1050 24 November 1059
1st time
22 May 1067 1096 Constantine X
1 January 1068
2nd time
1071 Romanos IV
Irene Pegonitissa Niketas Pegonites - 1045 ?around 1059?
as Caesarissa
8 September 1060/6 Caesar John Doukas
Maria of Alania
(Μαρία της Αλανίας)
Bagrat IV of Georgia
(Bagratids)
1050 1065 1065
as junior-empress consort
22 May 1067
as co-empress consort
1071 as sole-empress consort
1075
as senior empress consort
31 March 1078 after 1103 Michael VII
1078 10 December 1081 Nikephoros III
Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse

Komnenid dynasty (1081-1185)

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Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse
Irene Doukaina
(Ειρήνη Δούκαινα)
Andronikos Doukas
(Doukai)
1066 1078 4 April 1081 15 August 1118 19 February 1123 or 1133 Alexios I
Anna Komnene
(Άννα Κομνηνή)
Alexios I
(Komnenoi)
1 December 1083 1097
as Caesarissa
1118/37 1153 Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios
Irene of Hungary Ladislaus I of Hungary
(Árpád)
1088 1104 1104
as co-empress consort
15 August 1118
as sole-empress consort
13 August 1134 John II
Eupraxia of Kiev Mstislav I of Kiev
(Rurikids)
The identity of his wife is uncertain. It is possible he was married twice, the first wife being Dobrodjeja Mstislavna of Kiev, a daughter of Mstislav I of Kiev, and the second being Katay of Georgia, a daughter of David IV of Georgia. While both women are known to have married members of the Komnenoi family, several theories have been suggested as to the identities of their husband or husbands. [5] Alexios
Irene of Georgia David IV of Georgia
(Bagratids)
Irene of Sulzbach Berengar II, Count of Sulzbach
(Babenberg)
1110s after Epiphany 1146 29 August 1159
28 September 1159/60
Manuel I
Maria of Antioch Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch
(Ramnulfids)
1145 24 December 1161 24 September 1180 27 August 1182
Anna of France Louis VII of France
(Capet)
1171/2 2 March 1180 24 September 1180 October 1183 after 1204 Alexios II
1183 12 September 1185 Andronikos I
Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse

Angelid dynasty (1185-1204)

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Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse
Maria of Hungary Béla III of Hungary
(Árpád)
1175 1185 12 September 1185
1st time
8 April 1195 1223/after 3 March 1229 Isaac II
Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera
(Ευφροσύνη Δούκαινα Καματερίνα ή Καματηρά)
Andronikos Doukas Kamateros
(Doukai Kamateroi)
1155 1170/80 8 April 1195 17/18 July 1203 1211 Alexios III
Maria of Hungary Béla III of Hungary
(Árpád)
1175 c. 1185 July 1203
2nd time
January 1204 1223/after 3 March 1229 Isaac II
Eudokia Angelina
(Ευδοκία Αγγελίνα)
Alexios III
(Angeloi)
- 1204, after 12 April November 1204 1211, or after Alexios V
Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse

Palaiologan dynasty (restored to Constantinople, 1261-1453)

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Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse
Theodora Doukaina Vatatzaina Ioannes Doukas Vatatzes
(Doukai)
c. 1240 1253 1 January 1259 as co-empress consort of Nicaea
18 August 1258 as sole-empress consort of Nicaea
25 July 1261 as empress consort, restored to Constantinople
8 November 1273 as senior empress consort
1281 as only empress consort
11 December 1282 4 March 1303 Michael VIII
Anna of Hungary Stephen V of Hungary
(Árpád)
c. 1260 8 November 1273 as co-empress consort 1281/2 Andronikos II
Irene of Montferrat William VII, Marquess of Montferrat
(Aleramici)
1274 1284 as sole empress consort
16 January 1294 as senior empress conosrt
1317
Maria of Armenia Leo III of Armenia
(Hetoumids)
10/11 January 1278 c. 1185 16 January 1294 as junior empress conosrt
1317 as only empress consort
12 October 1320 July 1333 Michael IX
Irene of Brunswick Henry I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
(Welf)
c. 1293 March 1318 March 1318 as co-empress consort
July 1321 as rival empress consort
16/17 August 1324 Andronikos III
Anna of Savoy Amadeus V, Count of Savoy
(Savoy)
1306 October 1326 October 1326 as rival empress consort
24 May 1328 as sole empress conosort
15 June 1341 1359
Irene Asanina Andronikos Asen
(Asen)
c. 1300 before 1320 26 October 1341 as rival empress consort
8 February 1347 as co-empress conosort
4 December 1354 1363-1379 John VI
Helena Kantakouzene John VI
(Kantakouzenoi)
1333 28/29 May 1347 28/29 May 1347 as co-empress conosort
1352 as rival empress consort
4 December 1354 as senior empress conosort
12 August 1376 10 December 1396 John V
Irene Palaiologina Demetrios Palaiologos
(Palaiologoi)
1327 1340 15 April 1353 as co-empress conosort
4 December 1354 as rival empress consort
1357 Matthew Kantakouzenos
Maria of Bulgaria Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
(Shishman)
1348 after 17 August 1355 after 17 August 1355 as co-empress conosort
12 August 1376 s senior empress conosort
1 July 1379 1390 Andronikos IV
Helena Kantakouzene John VI
(Kantakouzenoi)
1333 28 May/29 May 1347 1 July 1379 as senior empress consort, husband restored
14 April 1390 as only empress
17 September 1390 as senior empress consort, husband restored
16 February 1391 10 December 1396 John V
Helena Dragaš Constantine Dragaš
(Dragaš)
c. 1372 10 February 1392 as senior empress conosort 21 July 1425 23 May 1450 Manuel II
Irene Gattilusio Francesco II of Lesbos
(Gattilusio)
1333 before 1397 as co-empress conosort 22 September 1408 1 June 1440 John VII
Anna of Moscow Vasili I of Moscow
(Rurikid)
1393 c. 1411 1416 as Despoina and shortly after co-empress consort August 1417 John VIII
Sophia Palaiologina of Montferrat Theodore II, Marquess of Montferrat
(Palaiologoi)
1396 19 January 1421 19 January 1421as co-empress conosort
21 July 1425 as sole-empress conosort
August 1426 21 August 1434
Maria Megale Komnene Alexios IV of Trebizond
(Megalokomnenoi)
- September 1427[3] 17 December 1439
Picture Name
English, Greek, Latin
Father Birth Marriage Became Empress Ceased to be Empress Death Spouse

Wives

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  • The identity of Emperor Isaac II's first wife is unknown, but her name, Herina (i.e., Eirene), is found on the necrology of Speyer Cathedral, where their daughter Irene is interred. (It must be noted, however, that it would have been extremely unusual for a mother and daughter to bear the same name, unless the mother's name was monastic.)[6] Isaac's wife may have been a member of the Palaiologos family.[7] A possible foreign origin is also given to her due to having the same name as her daughter.[8][9] Their third child was born in 1182 or 1183 and she was dead or divorced by 1185, when Isaac remarried. She was mother of Emperor Alexios III.


Mistresses

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Sources

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  1. ^ formerly mistress of Michael III
  2. ^ There is a contradiction on Zoe Zaoutzaina's particular status 893-897.
  3. ^ a b c Third marriages are the last permitted according to the rules of Orthodox Church, but are highly disaproved by the Church and sometimes considered illegal.
  4. ^ Fourth marriages are uncanonical and illegal in the eyes of the Orthodox Church.
  5. ^ Profile of Alexios Komnenos and his daughter in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley
  6. ^ The first wife of Isaac II is usually considered to be a Byzantine noblewoman of unknown name. In an Italian edition of the chronicle of Nicetas Choniates "Greatness and catastrophe of Byzantium" can be found an interesting note to the XIV Book. The names of Isaac II's first wife and eldest daughter, unknown to Byzantine sources, are found in an obituary in the Cathedral of Speyer (Germany) (the Pantheon of German kings) where it can be found the second daughter of Isaac II, Irene/Maria, wife of Philip of Suabia; in this text Irene/Maria is said daughter of Isaac and Irene (there is reference to the following article: R. Hiestand, Die erste Ehe Isaaks II. Angelos und seine Kinder, in Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinisk, XLVII 1997 pp. 199–208). This Irene could be identified with the daughter of Georg Paleologus Ducas Comnenus; the son of this one, Andronicus Paleologus Comnenoducas is known as gambrox (gamma alpha mu beta rho o x) of Isaac II.
  7. ^ Morris Bierbrier's "Medieval and royal genealogy update" column in the March 1999 issue of _Genealogists' Magazine_ gives a partial summary of the article by Hiestand; this is where I learned of its existence. Hiestand's article is of special interest because it explores the hypothesis that the first wife of Isaac II is a member of the Palaiologos family, perhaps the daughter of Georgios Palaiologos Komnenodoukas, megas hetaireiarches. This is based on a reference to Andronikos Palaiologos (probable son of Georgios) as beloved gambros (brother-in-law or son-in-law, though the former is more likely) of Emperor Isaac II in a document (from 1191, I think) printed in A. Papadopoulos- Kerameus's _Analekta ..._, II, Petersburg, 1894, p. 362. Unfortunately, the genealogy of the early Palaiologoi is somewhat murky.
  8. ^ RootsWeb: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L first wife of Isaac II, Byzantine emperor
  9. ^ RootsWeb: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Re: first wife of Isaac II, Byzantine emperor
  10. ^ The first wife of Isaac II is usually considered to be a Byzantine noblewoman of unknown name. In an Italian edition of the chronicle of Nicetas Choniates "Greatness and catastrophe of Byzantium" can be found an interesting note to the XIV Book. The names of Isaac II's first wife and eldest daughter, unknown to Byzantine sources, are found in an obituary in the Cathedral of Speyer (Germany) (the Pantheon of German kings) where it can be found the second daughter of Isaac II, Irene/Maria, wife of Philip of Suabia; in this text Irene/Maria is said daughter of Isaac and Irene (there is reference to the following article: R. Hiestand, Die erste Ehe Isaaks II. Angelos und seine Kinder, in Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinisk, XLVII 1997 pp. 199–208). This Irene could be identified with the daughter of Georg Paleologus Ducas Comnenus; the son of this one, Andronicus Paleologus Comnenoducas is known as gambrox (gamma alpha mu beta rho o x) of Isaac II.
  11. ^ Morris Bierbrier's "Medieval and royal genealogy update" column in the March 1999 issue of _Genealogists' Magazine_ gives a partial summary of the article by Hiestand; this is where I learned of its existence. Hiestand's article is of special interest because it explores the hypothesis that the first wife of Isaac II is a member of the Palaiologos family, perhaps the daughter of Georgios Palaiologos Komnenodoukas, megas hetaireiarches. This is based on a reference to Andronikos Palaiologos (probable son of Georgios) as beloved gambros (brother-in-law or son-in-law, though the former is more likely) of Emperor Isaac II in a document (from 1191, I think) printed in A. Papadopoulos- Kerameus's _Analekta ..._, II, Petersburg, 1894, p. 362. Unfortunately, the genealogy of the early Palaiologoi is somewhat murky.
  12. ^ RootsWeb: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L first wife of Isaac II, Byzantine emperor
  13. ^ RootsWeb: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Re: first wife of Isaac II, Byzantine emperor