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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.
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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.
By his marriage with Irene Doukaina, Alexios I had the following children:
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.
* Irene Doukaina Laskarina, who married Constantine I of Bulgaria
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.
# Irene Doukaina, c. 1105 –?
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.
The identification would make her a granddaughter of Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.
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.
She was related to the Emperor Constantine X and Irene Doukaina, empress of Alexios I Komnenos.
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 Ducaena
* 1133 – Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus ( b. 1066 )
* February 19 – Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus ( b. 1066 )
Irene and (,
Agia Eirini (, for Saint Irene ) may refer to several places in Cyprus and Greece:
Agia Eirini (, for Saint Irene ) is a community in the municipal unit of Eleios-Pronnoi in the southeastern part of the island of Cephalonia, Greece.
Irene and Eirēnē
His new bride was baptized as Irene ( Eirēnē, " peace ") in 732.
Irene and –
* John Palaiologos ( c. 1286 – 1308 ), despotes, married Irene Choumnaina, no issue.
Vernon and Irene Castle, early ballroom dance pioneers, c. 1910 – 18
Emperor John II Komnenos | John II ( 1118 – 1143 ) is shown on the left, with the Mary, Mother of Jesus | Virgin Mary and infant Jesus in the centre, and John's consort Piroska of Hungary | Empress Irene on the right.
* 1901 – Irene Handl, English actress ( d. 1987 )
* 1898 – Irene Dunne, American actress ( d. 1990 )
* 1961 – Irene Saez, Miss Universe 1981 and Venezuelan politician
* Irene Kaminka Fischer, 1907 – 2009, ( US )
* 1989 – Irene Gorovaia, Russian-American actress
* 1866 – Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine ( d. 1953 )
* 1910 – Irene Hervey, American actress ( d. 1998 )
* 1967 – Irene Bedard, American actress
* 1959 – Irene Cara, American singer and actress
* 1891 – Irene Rich, American actress ( d. 1988 )
* ' Irene ' – low and lax, trailing, intense blue flowers
* 1926 – Irene Papas, Greek actress and singer
* 1897 – Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1956 )
* 1920 – Irene Dailey, American actress ( d. 2008 )
* 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
Gwendolen Fairfax – Irene Vanbrugh
* November 30 – Irene Vanbrugh, English actress ( b. 1872 )
* November 16 – Amy Irene Applegren, American professional baseball player ( d. 2011 )
* January 25 – Irene Castle, English dancer ( b. 1893 )
* August 5 – Princess Irene of the Netherlands
* June 24 – Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom.
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