Irene Angelina 1
- Born: 1181
- Marriage (1): Philip II of Swabia, King of Germany on 25 May 1197
- Died: 1208 at age 27
Another name for Irene was Maria.
Research Notes:
From Wikipedia - Irene Angelina :
Irene Angelina (1181 - 1208) was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos by his first wife Herina Tornikaina[1]. Her paternal grandparents were Andronikos Dukas Angelos and Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa.
Biography
In 1193 she married Roger III of Sicily , but he died on 24 December 1193 . Irene was captured in the German invasion of Sicily on 29 December 1194 and was married on 25 May 1197 to Philip of Swabia . In Germany, she was renamed Maria.
Her father, who had been deposed in 1195, urged her to get Philip's support for his reinstatement; her brother, Alexius , subsequently spent some time at Philip's court during the preparations for the Fourth Crusade . She thus had an early influence on the eventual diversion of the Crusade to Constantinople in 1204.
She was described by Walther von der Vogelweide as "the rose without a thorn, the dove without guile"[citation needed ].
Philip and Irene had four daughters:
Beatrice of Hohenstaufen (1198-1212), married Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor , died without issue.
Cunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1200-1248), married King Wenceslaus I, King of Bohemia , by whom she had issue.
Marie of Hohenstaufen (3 April 1201- 29 March 1235), married Henry II, Duke of Brabant , by whom she had issue.
Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen (1203-1235), married King Ferdinand III of Castile , by whom she had issue.
and two sons (called Reinald and Frederick) who died in infancy.
After the murder of her husband (21 April 1208 ), Irene - who was pregnant by that time - retired to the Burg Hohenstaufen . There, four months later (27 August 1208 ), she gave birth to a daughter (called Beatrice Postuma); but both mother and child died shortly afterwards. She was buried in the family mausoleum in the Staufen proprietary monastery of Lorch Abbey , along with her daughter and sons. Her grave, now destroyed, cannot be reconstructed today.
Irene married Philip II of Swabia, King of Germany, son of Frederick I Holy Roman Emperor and Beatrix of Burgundy, on 25 May 1197. (Philip II of Swabia, King of Germany was born in 1177 and died on 21 Jun 1208 in <Bamburg>, Swabia, (Germany).)
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