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* Irene Doukaina Laskarina, who married Constantine I of Bulgaria
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Irene and Doukaina
However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.
Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.
Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.
Andronicus was himself a son of Theodora Komnene Angelina, the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.
Also known as Kaloïōannēs (" John the Good " or " John the Beautiful "), he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.
Anna Komnene, Latinized as Comnena (, Anna Komnēnē ; December 1, 1083 – 1153 ) was a Greek princess, scholar, doctor, hospital administrator, and the daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos of Byzantium and Irene Doukaina.
For the most part, however, it proved to be a successful union for forty years, and produced four children — Alexios Komnenos, John Doukas, Irene Doukaina, and Maria Bryennaina Komnene.
On the other hand, Anna ’ s mother, Irene Doukaina, according to Choniates “ threw her full influence on the side of ” and “ continually attempted ” to persuade the emperor to designate Nikephoros Bryennios, Anna ’ s husband, as emperor.
He therefore turned the civil government over to his wife, Irene Doukaina, who directed the administration to Anna ’ s husband, Nikephoros Bryennios.
After the death of Alexios, he refused to enter into the conspiracy set afoot by his mother-in-law Irene Doukaina and his wife Anna to depose John II Komnenos, the son of Alexios, and raise himself to the throne.
His son George Palaiologos was a friend of Alexios I Komnenos and brother-in-law to Alexios ' wife Irene Doukaina.
Another Alexios Palaiologos married Irene Angelina, eldest daughter of Alexios III Angelos and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera.
Alexios I married Irene Doukaina, the grandniece of Constantine X Doukas, a general who had succeeded Isaac I in 1059.
As Empress-Mother, she exerted more influence and power than the Empress-Consort, Irene Doukaina, whom she hated because of past intrigues with the Doukas family.
Irene Doukaina or Ducaena (, Eirēnē Doukaina ) ( – February 19, 1123 or 1133 ) was the wife of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos, and the mother of the emperor John II Komnenos and of the historian Anna Komnene.
The great modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy includes a reference to Irene Doukaina in his poem " A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses ", which refers to Doukaina " that viper Irini Doukaina " and that as the cause of the titular nobleman's exile, " may she be cursed ".
Irene and Laskarina
A successful soldier from a military family, in 1212, John was chosen by Emperor Theodore I Laskaris as husband for his daughter Irene Laskarina and as heir to the throne.
He was also the author of several shorter works, amongst them being a funeral oration on John Vatatzes, an epitaph on his wife Irene Laskarina and a panegyric of Theodore II Laskaris of Nicaea.
Irene and who
His mother Irene Worley (" Lolly ") was a writer of short stories who published under the name " Mary James ".
The Byzantine empire also produced three women who effectively governed the state: the Empress Irene and the Empresses Zoe and Theodora.
* Caroline Irene (" Carreen ") O ' Hara: Scarlett's youngest sister, who also became sickened by typhoid during the Battle of Atlanta.
Whale gathered as many of those as he could who had been involved in one production or another of the musical, including Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, Charles Winninger, and, as Magnolia, Irene Dunne, who believed that Whale was the wrong director for the piece.
He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Irene Flaugher ( born 1916-died December 26, 1985 ), an unwed woman from Kentucky who became pregnant through a relationship with an army corporal named John Bourgholtzer ( died 1993 ).
Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:
In the case of Antonietta Vial ( who was to sing the role of Irene and whom he described on first hearing her as " both a bastard soprano and a veiled contralto "), he was able to make adjustments to suit her vocal limitations.
The emotional centre lies, however, in Donizetti's forceful depiction of Belisario's relationship with his strong-willed daughter Irene – you think at once of Cordelia – and his eventual reunion with Alamiro, the son who vanished in infancy and in whose supposed murder Belisario is implicated.
He and Kramer had two children ; a son, who died in infancy, and a daughter, Irene ; who was born in 1930.
The way to public life was probably opened for him by ( according to one account ) the marriage of his brother Sergios to Irene, a sister of the Empress Theodora, who upon the death of her husband Emperor Theophilos ( r. 829 – 842 ) in 842, had assumed the regency of the Byzantine Empire.
The album-title of the Kickin project was a collaboration with Irene Cara, who was then their neighbor.
He is the son of Irish Canadian Catholic parents, Mary Irene ( née O ' Shea ) and Benedict Martin Mulroney, who was a paper mill electrician.
He has two children from his first marriage to Irene, Jonathan b. 1962 who is a music manager, and Naomi b. 1964 who is a freelance writer and journalist.
Theophilos had given asylum to a number of refugees from the east in 834, including Nasr ( a Persian ), baptized Theophobos, who married the Emperor's aunt Irene, and became one of his generals.
Nevertheless, Irene is said to have endeavoured to negotiate a marriage between herself and Charlemagne ; but according to Theophanes the Confessor, who alone mentions it, the scheme was frustrated by Aetios, one of her favourites.
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