Theodora Angelina (c. 1175/1180 - XIII century) - Byzantine princess, tsarina , wife of Tsar Ivanko of Bulgaria (in her first marriage) and Bulgarian boyar Dobromir Khriz (in her second marriage).
| Theodora Angelina | |
|---|---|
| bulg. Theodora Angelina Greek Θεοδώρα Αγγελίνα | |
| Date of Birth | c. 1175/1180 |
| Place of Birth | Byzantine Empire |
| Date of death | is unknown |
| Nationality | Byzantium Second Bulgarian Kingdom |
| Occupation | Queen of Bulgaria |
| Father | Isaac Komnin |
| Mother | Anna Angel |
| Spouse | and |
| Children | is unknown |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Pedigree
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Biography
The only daughter of Anna Angelina and Sevastocrat Isaac Komnin (grand-nephew of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnin ). Granddaughter of Alexei III Angel , the Byzantine emperor (1195-1203) and Efrosinya Dukini Kamatira .
In 1197, Theodora first married Ivanko , the Bulgarian boyar , commander Ivan Asen I. In the annals it is mentioned that she was young ( Latin immatura Aetate ) and that her mother was Anna ( Latin Matris eius Annae viduæ ). After the assassination of Asen I, the king of Bulgaria in 1196 (possibly according to the suggestion of the sevastocrat Isaac Komnin, the father of Theodora, who was at that time captured by the Bulgarians and who died there shortly after 1196), Ivanko tried to take the throne and temporarily took control of Tarnovo . Not finding support among the Bulgarian aristocracy and not receiving military assistance from Byzantium, he fled to the emperor Alexei III Angel in Constantinople and got his granddaughter Theodore Angelin, along with the administration of the Plovdiv region. He took the name Alexios at the wedding. He fought on the side of the Greeks, then began an independent policy, and finally in 1197 switched over to the side of Tsar Kaloyan. In 1198, he defeated the Byzantine army in the Rhodope Mountains, captured its leader Manuel Kamitsa and handed it over to Kaloyan. At the beginning of 1199, he ruled in Central Thrace [1] .
In 1197/1199, Theodora as a hostage was in Constantinople. In 1200, during negotiations with the Greeks about moving again to the side of Byzantium, her husband Ivanko was captured and thrown into prison in Constantinople, where he died.
Theodora, around 1200, for the second time married the Bulgarian boyar Dobromir Khriz , according to the Slavic version, his Greek name is “Chrysos”, the ruler of Macedonia from the end of the 12th to the beginning of the 13th century. Previously, he was the son-in-law of the commander Konstantinos Kamitses, whom he helped to escape from the Bulgarian captivity. However, Dobromir Chrys rejected his second wife and left his father-in-law, after the emperor Alexei III Angel offered him a granddaughter as a new bride [1] .
Pedigree
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BYZANTIUM 1057—1204
Literature
- O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniatēs (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984). (eng.)
- Michael Angold, Cesarstwo Bizantyńskie 1025-1204. Historia polityczna , przeł. Władysław Brodzki, Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich 1993. (Polish)