I. The Komnenen
PART 1.
Manuel Komnenos, d.1020, in 978 defended Nicaea against Skloros; he m.two women whose
names are unknown and had issue:
1.Nikephorus Komnenos, d.1026
2.Isaakios I Komnenos (1007-1061), Emperor of Byzantium 1057-9; m.before 1057 Aeikatherina,
dau.of Tsar Ivan of Bulgaria
2.1.Manuel Komnenos; m. a dau.of Helios ___
2.2.Maria Komnene
3.Ioannes Komnenos (1015-1067); m.ca 1042 Anna Dalassene, dau.of Alexios Charon, Prefect of
Italy
3.1.Manuel Komnenos, d.1071; m.ca 1068 N Diogene
3.1.1.a dau., b.1069, engaged 1081 to a relative of Nikophoros Botanaites
3.2.Isaakios Komnenos, Duke of Antioch, Gov of Constantinople (1047-1104/7); m.ca 1072/3
Irene of Alania (d.1108) dau.of Demetrios, Anti-King of Georgia
3.2.1.Ioannes Komnenos, Duke of Durazzo (1073-1106); m.Anna, dau.of Michael Dukas
3.2.1.1.Andronikos Komnenos; m.Eudokia Dukaina
3.2.1.1.1.Anna Komnene Dukaina; m.Alexios Komnenos Anemas
3.2.1.2.Alexios Komnenos; m.Eirene Synadene
3.2.1.2.1.Adrianos Komnenos; m.Anna Kontostephanina
3.2.1.3.Adrianos Komnenos
3.2.1.4.Eudokia Komnene; m.Alexios Tarchaneiotes
3.2.2.Alexios Komnenos, Duke of Durazzo; m.Zoe, who d.after treatment by a magician
3.2.3.Konstantinos Komnenos, Duke of Beroa; m.NN (possibly Antiochena Euphorbena)
3.2.3.1.Ioannes Komnenos, a monk
3.2.3.2.Stephanos Komnenos; m.1147/51 Eudokia, dau.of Joannes Axuch
3.2.3.2.1.Konstantinos Komnenos
3.2.3.2.2.Eirene Komnene, b.1155; m.ca 1170 Isaakios Batatzes
3.2.4.Adrianos Komnenos, Metropolitan of Ochrida; m.ca 1110 NN
3.2.4.1.Theodora Komnena, b.1110; m.Andronikos Kontostephanos
3.2.5.Anna Komnene; m.Ioannes Dukas
3.2.6.Maria Komnene; engaged to Gregorios Gabras, separated by their relatives
3.2.7.Sophia Komnene; m.Nikolaos Dokeianos
3.2.8.Eudokia Komnene; m.Nikephoros Botaneiates
3.3.Alexios Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium 1081-1118 (1048/57-1118); m.1st ca 1075
Argyropulina ___ (d.ca 1077); m.2d ca 1078 Eirene (1066-1123/36) dau.of Andronikos Dukas
SECTION I, Note 2.
3.3.1.Ioannes II Komnenos Dukas, Emperor of Byzantium 1118-43 (1087-1143); m.1104/5
Piroska=[St.]Eirene (d.1134) dau.of King Ladislaus of Hungary
3.3.1.1.Alexios Komnenos (1106-1142); m.1st 1122 Dobrodjaja=Eupraxia, dau.of Mstislav I, Great
Pr of Kiev; m.2d Kata=Eirene of Alania, dau.of King David II of Georgia
3.3.1.1.1.Maria Komnene, d.1167; m.ca 1120 Alexios Axuch, Duke of Cilicia
3.3.1.1.2.a dau., m.Theodoros Maurozomes
3.3.1.2.Andronikos Komnenos (1108-1142); m.ca 1124 Eirene Aineidasa (d.1150/1)
3.3.1.2.1.Ioannes Komnenos, Duke of Cyprus (1128-1176); m.ca 1146 a dau.of Michael Taronites
3.3.1.2.1.1.Alexios Komnenos, with Norman help was proclaimed Emperor in Thessalonica;
imprisoned and blinded 1185, d.1187
3.3.1.2.1.2.Eirene Komnene
3.3.1.2.1.3.Maria Komnene, of Nauplia (1154-ca 1217); m.1st 1167 Amalric d'Anjou, King of
Jerusalem (d.1174); m.2d 1177 Balian d'Ibelin, Lord of Nablus (d.1193)
3.3.1.2.1.4.Theodora Komnene; m.1st 1175 (div 1180) Bohemund III, Pr of Antioch; m.2d
Gauthier de Bethune, Lord of Bessan
3.3.1.2.2.Alexios Komnenos, lover of the Empress Maria Komnena and leader of her regency
council, b.1136, murdered 1183; m.Maria Dukaina
3.3.1.2.2.1.Androikos Komnenos, d.young after falling from horse
3.3.1.2.2.2.Eudokia Komnena (1167-ca 1202); m.1178/9Guillaume VIII de Montpellier (d.1218)
3.3.1.2.3.Maria Komnene, b.1126; m.1st 1139 Theodoros Dasiotes (d.1143/4); m.2d 1145/50
Ioannes Kantukuzenos (d.1176)
3.3.1.2.4.Eudokia Komnene; m.1st (div 1149) Thoros II, Lord of the Mountains; m.2d Michael
Gabras (d.after 1170)
3.3.1.2.5.Theodora Komnene, d.1183; m.1148 Duke Heinrich II of Austria and Bavaria (d.1177)
3.3.1.3.Isaakios Komnenos (1115-1154/74); m.1st 1134 Theodora Kamaterina (d.1144); m.2d
1146 Eirene Diplosynadene
[by 1st m.]:
3.3.1.3.1.Alexios Komnenos, d.ca 1136
3.3.1.3.2.Ioannes Komnenos, d.1136/7
3.3.1.3.3.Eirene Komnene; she m.an unknown man and was mother of:
3.3.1.3.3.1.Isaakios Dukas Komnenos, Emperor in Cyprus 1184-91, b.1155/60, d.of poisoning
1195/6; m.1st 1175/6 a dau.of Thoros II, Lord of the Mountains; m.2d 1185/6 an illegitimate
dau.of King William I of Sicily; by the first m.he had:
3.3.1.3.3.1.1.a son, d.1187/90
3.3.1.3.3.1.2.a dau., "La Damsel de Chypre", b.1177/8, d.after 1204; in 1194 she was engaged to
Duke Leopold of Austria, but never married him; she m.1st 1200 (div 1202/3) Ct Raimund VI de
Toulouse; m.2d 1203 Thierry de Flandre, illegitimate son of Philippe de Lorraine, Ct of Flanders
3.3.1.3.4.Anna Komnene; m.before 1166 Konstantinos Dukas (d.1185)
3.3.1.3.5.Maria Komnene; m.1156 King Stephen IV of Hungary (d.1165)
[by 2d m.]:
3.3.1.3.6.Theodora Kalusine Komnene, b.1145/6; she was the lover of Emperor Andronikos I
Komnenos; m.1158 Balduin d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem (d.1163)
3.3.1.3.7.Eudokia Komnene; m.1st 1170 Odone Frangipani; m.2d 1179 Guelfo di Porcaria
3.3.1.4.Manuel I Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium 1143-80, b.1118, d.1180; m.1st 1146
Bertha=Eirene (d.1159/60), dau.of Ct Berengar von Sulzbach; m.2d 1161 Maria (b.1145,
strangled and thrown into the sea 1182) dau.of Raymond de Poitiers, Pr of Antioch; Maria was
regent (along with her lover and nephew by marriage Alexios [see above]) for her son.
3.3.1.4.1.[by 1st m.]Maria Komnene, b.1152, d.of poisoning 1182; she had been engaged to King
Bela III of Hungary and to King William II of Sicily, but Byzantine politics kept those matches from
being consummated; she m.1180 Rainer de Montferrat, who d.of poisoning 1182.
3.3.1.4.2.[by 1st m.]Anna Komnene (1154-1158)
3.3.1.4.3.[by 2d m.]Alexios II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium 1180-1183; b.1169, d.of
strangulation 1183; m.1180 Agnes, dau.of King Louis VII of France
3.3.1.4.4.[illegitimate]Alexios Komnenos, d.after 1188, blinded by Andronikos I 1184; m.1183
Andronikos I's illegitimate dau., Eirene.
3.3.1.5.Maria Komnene (1106-1144/51); m.Ioannes Dalassenos Rogerios
3.3.1.6.Anna Komnene, b.1110; m.ca 1125 Stephanos Kontestephanos (d.1149)
3.3.1.7.Theodora Komnene, b.1116; m.Manuel Anemas (d.1146/7)
3.3.1.8.Eudokia Komnene, b.1119; m.Theodoros Batatzes (d.1176)
3.3.2.Andronikos Komnenos (1090-1130/1); m.Eirene, dau.of Pr Wolodar of Tmutorokan and
Przemysl
3.3.3.Isaakios Komnenos, b.after 16 Jan 1093, d.after 1152; m. NN
3.3.3.1.Ioannes Komnenos Tzelepes, a Mohamedan and a noted scholar; m.1st 1131 a dau.of
Leon, Lord of the Mountains; m.2d 1140 a dau.of Sultan Mas'ud of Rum.
3.3.3.1.1.Isaakios Komnenos, d.under torture
3.3.3.1.2.Suleiman Shah, may have had descendants, who were Moslems
3.3.3.2.Andronikos I Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium 1183-5; b.1123/4, mangled to death by a
mob in Constantinople 1185; m.1st N Palaiologa; m.2d 1183 Agnes, dau.of King Louis VII of
France
3.3.3.2.1.Manuel Komnenos, b.before 1152, blinded and imprisoned 1185; m.a dau.of King David
IV of Georgia; for their descendants, See PART 2.
3.3.3.2.2.Ioannes Komnenos, b.1158/9, murdered 1185
3.3.3.2.3.Maria Komnene, b.before 1660; m.after 1184 Theodoros Synadenos
[illegitimate by Eudokia, dau.of Andronikos Komnenos]:
3.3.3.2.4.Alexios Komnenos, fled Constantinople in 1185
3.3.3.2.5.Eirene Komnene; m.Nikephoros Palaiologos
[illegitimate by Theodora Kalusine Komnene (above)]:
3.3.3.2.6.Alexios Komnenos, b.1170
3.3.3.2.7.Eirene Komnene, b.after 1668; m.1183 Alexios Komnenos (d.after 1188)
[illegitimate by unknown mother]:
3.3.3.2.8.a dau., m.Romanos, Duke of Durazzo
3.3.3.3.Maria, m.before 1166 Ioseph Bryennios
3.3.3.4.Anna Komnene; m.Ioannes Arbantenos
3.3.3.5.Eudokia Komnene; may have m. Konstantinos Palaiologos
3.3.3.6.Helene Komnene, d.1183; may have m.Yuri I, Great Pr of Kiev (d.1158)
3.3.3.7.[illegitimate]Alexios Komnenos
3.3.4.Manuel Komnenos, b.1097
3.3.5.Anna Komnene Dukaina, a writer (1083-1149/54); m.Nikephoros Bryennios (d.1136/7)
3.3.6.Maria Komnene (1085-after 1136); m.1st Gregorios Gabras; m.2d Nikephoros Katakalon
Euphorbanos
3.3.7.Eudokia Komnene, b.1094; m. N Iasites
3.3.8.Theodora Komnene, b.1096; m.Konstantinos Angelos
3.3.9.Zoe Komnene, b.1098
3.4.Adrianos Komnenos, d.1105; m.after Oct 1081 Zoe Dukaina (1062-ca 1136) dau.of Emperor
Konstantinos Dukas
3.4.1.Alexios Komnenos
3.4.1.1.a dau., m.Alexios Palaiologos
3.4.2.Alexeia Komnene, d.ca 1105; m.ca 1084 one Grimoald, a Lombard
3.5.Nikephoros Komnenos (1060-1136/43); m. NN
3.5.1.Alexios Komnenos
3.5.2.a dau, m.Gregorios Pakurianos
3.6.Maria Komnene, b.1045; m.1062 Michael Taronites
3.7.Eudokia Komnene, b.1050; m.1067 Nikephoros Melissenos
3.8.Theodora, b.1053; m.Konstantinos Diogenes
4.a dau., b.1012; m.ca 1031 Michael Dokeianos, captain of Italy (d.1050)

END OF Komnenos, Part 1.

Komnenos, Part 2.
Manuel Komnenos [See Part 1] and his wife had issue:
1.Alexios I Megas Komnenos, Emperor in Trapezunt (1182-1222); m.Theodora Axuchina
1.1.Ioannes I, Emp in Trapezunt, d.1238; m. NN
1.1.1.Ioannikes, confined in a cloister
1.2.Manuel I, Emp in Trapezunt (1218-1263); m.1st ca 1235 Anna Xylaloe; m.2d Rusadani of
Iberia; m.3d Eirene Syrikaina
1.2.1.Andronikos II, Emp in Trapezunt (1236-1266)
1.2.2.Georgios, Emp in Trapezunt 1266-80, then deposed
1.2.3.Ioannes II, Emp in Trapezunt 1280-97, b.1262/3, d.1297; m.1282 Eudokia Palaiologina
(d.1301/2)
1.2.3.1.Alexios II, Emp in Trapezunt 1297-1330 (1283-1330); m.1300 Djiadjak, dau.of Bekha
Jaqueli ata, Beg of Samatzkhe
1.2.3.1.1.Andronikos III, Emp in Trapezunt 1330-2, murdered 1332; m. NN
1.2.3.1.1.1.[illegitimate]Manuel II, Emp of Trapezunt for 8 months in 1332; b.1323/4, murdered
1333
1.2.3.1.2.Basileios, Emp in Trapezunt 1332-40, poisoned 1340; m.1st 1335 Eiren Palaiologina,
Empress of Trapezunt 1340-1; m.2d, bigamously, Eirene, a lady from Trapezunt, who was the
mother of his kids
1.2.3.1.2.1.Alexeios Megas Komnenos (1337-ca 1349)
1.2.3.1.2.2.Alexeios III, Emp in Trapezunt 1349-90; (1338-1390); m.1351 Theodora Kantukuzene
1.2.3.1.2.2.1.Basileios Megas Komnenos (1358-1377)
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.Manuel III, Emp in Trapezunt 1390-1416; (1364-1417); m.1st 1377
Gulkhan=Eudokia, dau.of King David VII of Georgia; m.2d 1395 Anna Philanthropene
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.Alexios IV, Emp in Trapezunt 1417-29, murdered 1429; m.1395 Theodora
Kantakuzene (d.1426)
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.1.Ioannes IV, Emp in Trapezunt 1429-59, had to pay tribute to Sultan Mohammed
II, d.1460; m.1st ca 1426 a dau.of King Alexander of Iberia; m.2d before 1438 a Turkish lady
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.1.1.Theodora Megale Komnene, d.after 1478; m.1458 Uzun Hasan khan
Aqqeyunlu
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.2.Skantarios Megas Komnenos, d.1454/9; m.1437 <aria Gattilusia, who was taken
into the harem of Sultan Mohammed II in 1461
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.2.1.Alexios Megas Komnenos, b.1454, beheaded 1463
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.3.David, Emp in Trapezunt 1459-61, beheaded 1463; m.1st 1429 Maria, dau.of Pr
Alexios of Gothia; m.2d before 1447 Helene Kantakuzene
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.3.1.,2,and 3.--3 sons, named Basileios, Manuel and Georgios, who were beheaded
in 1463
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.3.4.Anna Megale Komnene (1447-after 1463); m.1462 Zagan Paya
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.3.5.a dau., m.Mamia de Gourie, from Georgia
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.4.Maria Megale Komnene, d.of the Plague 1439; m.1427 Emperor Ioannes VIII of
Byzantium
1.2.3.1.2.2.2.1.5.Theodora Megale Komnene; m.ca 1422 Osman beg Kara Iluk, Khan of
Aqqoyunlu
1.2.3.1.2.2.3.Eudokia Megale Komnene; m.1st 1379 Ta Jeddin, emir of Limnia (d.1386); m.2d
Konstantinos Dragas, a Serb
1.2.3.1.2.2.4.Maria Megale Komnene; m.Suleiman beg, Emir of Chalybia
1.2.3.1.2.2.5.a dau., m.Mutakharten, Emir of Erzincan
1.2.3.1.2.2.6.Anna Megale Komnene (1357-after 1406); m.1367 King Bagrat V of Georgia
1.2.3.1.2.2.7.[illegitimate]Andronikos Megas Komnenos, b.1355, d.after being thrown from a tower
1376
1.2.3.1.2.2.8.[illegitimate]Ioannes Megas Komnenos
1.2.3.1.2.3.Maria Megale Komnene (1328-1408); m.1352 Fahreddin Kutlug beg, Khan of
Aqqoyunlu
1.2.3.1.2.4.Theodora Megale Komnene; m.after 29 Aug 1358 Hajj-Omar, Emir of Chalybia
1.2.3.1.3.Michael Azachutlus Komnenos, murdered by his brother Andronikos 1330
1.2.3.1.4.Georgios Achpugas Komnenos, mureder by his brother Andronikos 1330
1.2.3.1.5.Anna Anachutlu Komnene, a nun, became Empress in Trapezunt 1341-2, strangled to
death 1342
1.2.3.1.6.Eudokia Komnene, may have m.Adil beg ibn Yakub Kandaride
1.2.3.2.Michael Komnenos, Emp in Trapezunt 1344-49 (1285-after 1355); m.a dau.of
Konstantinos Akropolites
1.2.3.2.1.Ioannes III Komnenos, Emp in Trapezunt 1342-44; b.1321/2, d.1362
1.2.4.Theodora Megale Komnene, a nun, became Empress in Trapezunt briefly in 1284-5, d.after
1285
1.2.5.a dau., d.after 1280; m.1273 a noble in Georgia
1.3.a dau., m.Andronikos I Gidos, Emp in Trapezunt 1222-35
2.David Komnenos, Lord of Heracleia and Paphlagonia (1184-1214)

END OF PART 2.
END OF  SECTION I.



SECTION II. The Dukai
Andronikos Dukas, living ca 1020 (he was related to Emperor Konstantinos (d.913) but exactly
how is uncertain) had issue:
1.Konstantinos X Dukas, Emperor of Byzantium 1059-67, d.1067; m.1st a dau.of Konstantinos
Dalassenos; m.2d before 1050 Eudokia Makrembolitissa (d.1096)
1.1.Michael VII Dukas, Emp of Byzantium 1071-8, then became a monk and then Metropolitan of
Ephesus, d.10190; m.after 1071 Maria (d.after 1090) dau.of King Bagrat IV of Georgia
1.1.1.Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos Dukas, co-emperor 1074-8 and 1081-7
1.2.a son, d.shortly after 24 Nov 1059
1.3.Andronikos Dukas, co-emperor 1071-death; b.1057, d.after 1081; m.1068 Maria, dau.of King
Bela I of Hungary
1.4.Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos Dukas, co-emperor 1067-78 (1060-1081)
1.5.Anna Dukaina, a nun, b.before 1057, d.after 1075
1.6.Theodora Dukaina, b.before 1059, d.after 1075; m.after 1071 Domenico Silvio, Doge of Venice
1.7.Zoe Dukaine (1062-ca 1136)
2.Ioannes Dukas, d.1088; m.ca 1045 Eirene Pegonitissa
2.1.Andronikos Dukas, d.1077; m.before 1066 Maria (d.after 1089) dau.of Pr Trojan of Bulgaria
2.1.1.Michael Dukas (1061-1108/18); m. NN
2.1.1.1.Konstantinos Dukas; m. NN; he is believed to have been father of one Anna Dukaina, who
m.Boris of Hungary, a pretender to the throne
2.1.1.2.Theodora Dukaina; m.Theodoros ___
2.1.1.3.Anna Dukaina; m.Ioannes Komnenos, Duke of Durazzo (d.1106)
2.1.1.4.Eirene Dukaina; m.Gregorios Kalameteros
2.1.2.Ioannes Dukas, Duke of Durazzo, (1064-ca 1036)
2.1.3.Eirene Dukaina (1066-1123); m.1078 Alexios I Komnenos, Emp of Byzantium (d.1118)
2.1.4.Anna Dukaina (1068-1110/35); m.Georgios Palaiologos
2.1.5.Theodora Dukaina, a nun (1070-before 1116)
2.2.Konstantinos Dukas, d.1075/6; m. NN
2.2.1.Ioannes Dukas; m.Anna Komnene
2.2.1.1.Zoe Dukaina; m.Georgios Botaneiates

END OF SECTION II.


SECTION III. The Angeloi
[NOTE: Although they were members of the Angelos family, they often bore other surnames, so
beware.]
One Angelos, from Philadelphia, had issue:
1.Konstantinos Angelos, admiral of Sicily, d.after Jul 1166; m.ca 1120 Theodora, dau.of Emp
Alexios I Komnenos
1.1.Ioannes Dukas, pretender to the throne in 1199, d.1200; m.two women named Zoe
1.1.1.Isaakios Komnenos Dukas, d.1203; m.ca 1187 Eudokia Komnene Branaina
1.1.2.Alexios Komnenos Dukas, blinded 1183
1.1.3.Theodoros I Komnenos Dukas Angelos, Emp of Thessalonica, d.in prison in Nicaea shortly
after 1253; m.before 1210 Maria Dukaina Komnene Petraliphaina
1.1.3.1.Ioannes Komnenos, Emp of Thessalonica, d.1244
1.1.3.2.Demetrios Komnenos Dukas, despot of Thessalonica (1225-ca 1246)
1.1.3.3.Anna Dukaina, d.1258; m.1219/20 Stefan Dukas Radoslav, Kralj of Serbia (d.after 1235)
1.1.3.4.Eirene Komnene; m.1237/8 Ivan Asen, Tsar of Bulgaria (d.1241)
1.1.4.Konstantinos Komnenos Dukas, pretender to Byzantine throne 1204, military governor of
Aetolia, d.after 1242
1.1.5.Manuel Komnenos Dukas, Regent of Thessalonica 1230-7, d.1241; m.1st ca 1216 Efimia,
dau.of Staphen Nemanja Veliki-Zupan of Serbis; m.2d ca 1225 Maria, dau.of Tsar Ivan Asen II of
Bulgaria
1.1.6.a dau., twin with Theodoros, may have m.Michael Kantakuzenos
1.1.7.[illegitimate]Michael I Komnenos Dukas, murdered ca 1215; m. a dau.of N. Melissenos;
m.2d 1204 his 1st wife's sister
1.1.7.1.Konstantinos Komnenos, d.ca 1214
1.1.7.2.a dau., m.Eustach de Flandre
1.1.7.3.Theodora Komnene
1.1.7.4.Maria Komnene, engaged to King Stephen Prvovencani of Serbia; m.Konstantinos
Malliasennos
1.1.7.5.[illegitimate] Michael II Komnenos Dukas Notho Angelos, Archon of Epirus and Aetolia
(1205-1266); m.ca 1230 Theodora Dukaina Petraliphaina
1.1.7.5.1.Ioannes Dukas, imprisoned and blinded 1280, committed suicide 1281/9; m.a dau.of
Konstantinos Tornikes
1.1.7.5.1.1.Helene Dukaina Tornikina Komnene; m.ca 1288 Alexios Raul (d.1303)
1.1.7.5.2.Nikephoros I Dukas Komnenos, Despot of Epirus (1240-1296); m.1st 1256 Maria
(d.1258) dau.of Emp Theodoros II Laskaris of Nicaea; m.2d 1264 Anna Kantakuzene
1.1.7.5.2.1.Thomas Komnenodukas, Despot and Archon of Epirus and Aetolia, murdered 1318;
m.1313 Ana (d.1321) dau.of Emp Michael IX Palaiologos
1.1.7.5.2.2.Michael Dukas Angelos; m.1st a dau.of N Pharmakes; m.2d Maria Spartene
1.1.7.5.2.3.Katharina; m.ca 1274 Infant Fadrique of Castile
1.1.7.5.2.4.Maria Komnene Dukaina; m.ca 1292 Giovanni Orsini, Ct of Cephallenia (d.1317)
1.1.7.5.2.5.Thamar Komnene Dukaina, Lady of Bonditza and Lepanto, d.1311; m.1294 (div 1309)
Philippe d'Anjou, Pr of Tarento
1.1.7.5.3.Demetrios Michael Dukas Komnenos Kutrules; m.1st 1278 Anna (1260-1299/1300)
dau.of Emp Michael VIII Palaiologos; m.2d 1301 Anna, dau.of Georgi I, Tsar of Bulgaria
1.1.7.5.3.1.Konstantinos Palaiologos, d.after 1345; m. NN
1.1.7.5.3.1.1.Andronikos Palaiologos, drowned 1344; m.a dau.of Alexios Apokaukos
1.1.7.5.3.1.2.Ioannes Palaiologos
1.1.7.5.3.1.3.Eudokia Palaiologina; m.Demetrios Tsamplakon
1.1.7.5.3.2.Andronikos Palaiologos, Archon of Belgrade, a military gov for Emp Andronikos II, fled
to Serbia, d.1326/8; m.a dau.of Georgios Kokalas
1.1.7.5.3.2.1.Anna Palaiologina, Regent of Epirus 1341-2, d.after 1355; m.1st ca 1328 Ioannes
Orsini, Ct of Cephallenia, Despot of Epirus (d.of poisoning 1335); m.2d before 1355 Ivan Asen of
Bulgaria, Gov of Valona (d.1363)
1.1.7.5.3.2.2.a dau., m.Ioannes Angelos (d.1348)
1.1.7.5.4.Eudokia
1.1.7.5.5.Helene Dukaina Angelina, heiress  of Corfu, etc (1242-1271); m.1259 King Manfredo of
Sicily (d.1266)
1.1.7.5.6.Anna Komnenodukaina, Lady of Kalamata and Clermont, d.1286; m.1st ca 1258
Guillaume II de Villehardouin, Pr of Achaia (d.1278); m.2d ca 1279 Nicolas de Saint-Omer, Pr of
Achaia (d.1294)
1.1.7.5.7.[illegitimate]Ioannes Dukas Komnenos, Archon of Neaipatrai, d.ca 1289; m.before 1259
a dau.of the Vlach Voivode Taronas
1.1.7.5.7.1.Konstantinos Komnenos Dukas, Archon of Neaipatrai, d.1303; m.Anna Evagionissa
(d.1317)
1.1.7.5.7.1.1.Ioannes Dukas Angelos, Archon of Neaipatrai, d.1318; m.1315 Eirene, illegitimate
dau.of Emp Andronikos II Palaiologos
1.1.7.5.7.2.Theodoros Komnenodukas Angelos, d.1296
1.1.7.5.7.3.Michael Komnenos, murdered in jail in Constantinople 1307
1.1.7.5.7.4.Helene Komnenodukaina, heiress of Lamia and Larissa; m.1st Guillaume de la Roche-
sur-Yon, Duke of Athens (d.1287); m.2d 1291 Hugues de Brienne, Cte di Lecce
1.1.7.5.7.5.a dau., m.Andronikos Tarchaneiotes (d.1283)
1.1.7.5.7.6.{parentage in doubt}Jelena, d.1298/9; m.ca 1276 (repudiated 1283) Stephen Uros,
Kralj of Serbia (d.1321)
1.1.7.5.8.[illegitimate]Theodoros Komnenodukas, d.1257/8
1.2.Alexios Komnenos Angelos; m.NN
1.2.1.Michael Angelos, in 1189 was a hostage to Frederick Barbarossa
1.3.Andronikos Dukas Angelos, a military leader in Asia Minor; m.before 1155 Euphrosyne
Kastamonitissa
1.3.1.Alexios III Komnenos Angelos, Emperor of Byzantium, d.imprisoned in Nicaea after 1211;
m.Euphrosyne Kamaterina (d.1211)
1.3.1.1.Eirene Komnene Angelina, d.after 1203; m.1st Andronikos Kontostephanos (d.1196);
m.2d 1199 Alexios Palaiologos
1.3.1.2.Anna Komnene Angelina, d.1212; m.1st before 1190 Isaakios Komnenos (d.after 1196);
m.2d 1199 Theodoros I Laskaris, Emp in Nicaea (d.1222)
1.3.1.3.Eudokia Komnene Angelina, d.after 1208; m.1st 1191 (repudiated 1201/2) King Stephen
Prvovancani of Serbia; m.2d 1204 Emperor Alexios V Dukas of Byzantium (murdered 1204); m.3d
1204 Leon Sguros, Archon of Nauplia (d.jumping from a tower 1208)
1.3.2.Isaakios II Angelos, Emperor of Byzantium 1185-95 (1155-1204); m.1st NN; m.2d Margaret,
dau.of King Bela III of Hungary
[by 1st m.]:
1.3.2.1.Alexios IV Angelos, Emp  of Byzantium 1203-4, b.1182/3, murdered 1204was engaged to
Eufemia of Tschernigov
1.3.2.2.a dau., a nun
1.3.2.3.Eirene=Maria (1181-1208); m.1st 1192 Roger, Duke of Apulia (d.1193); m.2d 1197 Duke
Philip of Swabia, German King (d.1208)
[by 2d m/]:
1.3.2.4.Manuel Angelos, d.1212
1.3.2.5.Ioannes Angelos
1.3.3.Ioannes Angelos; m.NN
1.3.3.1.Andronikos Angelos, hostage to Frederick Barbarossa
1.3.3.2.Theodora (parentage not certain) d.1246; m.1203 Duke Leopold VI of Austria and Styria
(d.1230)
1.3.4.Theodoros Angelos, blinded 1184
1.3.5.Andronikos Angelos, blinded 1184
1.3.6.Konstantinos Angelos, blinded 1183
1.3.7.Eirene Angeline; m.before 1170 Ioannes Kantakuzenos
1.3.8.Theodora Angelina, d.after 1195; m.Conrad, Mgve of Montferrat (d.1192)
1.4.Isaakios Angelos, military governor of Cilicia
1.4.1.Konstantinos Angelos, Duke of Crete, blinded by Emp Isaakios II Angelos
1.4.2.a dau., m.Basilios Batatzes
1.5.Maria Angelina; m.Konstantinos Kamytzes
1.6.Eudokia Angelina; m.Gudelios Tsykandeles
1.7.Zoe Angelina; m.Andronikos Synadenos, military gov of Durazzo (d.1180)
2.Nikolaos Angelos  3.Michael Angelos
4.Ioannes Angelos, a military leader in Italy
END OF SECTION III.

SECTION IV.The Kantakuzenoi. The exact relationships in the family Kantakuzenoi are uncertain
in most generations. One of them, Ioannes VI, was emperor of Byzantium 1341-54, and there
were many members, but just about every generation there is at least one group of siblings whose
exact parentage is uncertain. I am thus not going to attempt to post them.


SECTION V.The Laskari.
One Manuel Laskaris m. Ioanna ___ and had issue:
1.Manuel Laskaris, d.after 1256
2.Michael Laskaris, d.1261/71
3.Georgios Laskaris
4.Konstantinos IX Laskaris, Emperor of Byzantium 1204-5, d.after 19 Mar 1205
5.Theodoros I Komnenos Laskaris, Emperor of Byzantium 1205-22 (1175-1222); m.1st 1199
Anna (d.1212) dau.of Emp Alexios III Angelos; m.2d 1214 (div 1216) Philippa (1183-after 1219)
dau.of Rupen III of Armenia, Lord of the Mountains; m.3d 1219 Marie (1204-1222) dau.of Pierre
de Courtenay, Emperor of Constantinople
[by 1st m.]:
5.1.Nikolaos, d.ca 1212
5.2.Ioannes, d.ca 1212
5.3.Eirene Dukaina Komnene Laskarina, d.1239; m.1st 1212 Konstantinos Dukas Palaiologos
(d.1212); m.2d ca 1212 Ioannes Dukas Batatzes, Emp of Byzantium in Nicaea(d.1254)
5.4.Maria Laskarina, d.1270; m.1218 King Bela IV of Hungary (d.1270)
5.5.Eudokia Laskarina; engaged to Robert de Courtenay; m.before 1230 Anseau de Cayeux, Gov
of Asia Minor
[by 2d m.]:
5.6.Konstantinos Laskaris, Duke of Thrace, b.1214
6.Alexios Laskaris, Latin military leader against the Bulgars, fought with the French against Emp
Ioannes III, imprisoned and blinded
7.Isaakios Laskaris

END OF SECTION V.

SECTION VI. The Batatzoi
One Basileios Batatzes, Duke of Thrace, d.1193, m.a dau.of Isaakios Angelos; they had issue:
1.Isaakios Dukas Batatzes, d.1261; m.NN
1.1.Ioannes Batatzes, b.1215; m.Eudokia Angelina
1.1.1.Theodora Batatzaina (1240-1303); m.1253 Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos (d.1282)
1.1.2.Maria Batatzaina; m.Michael Dukas Glabas Tarchaneiotes, military goveror of Thrace
1.2.a dau., m.Konstantinos Strategopulos
2.a son; m.NN
2.1.a dau., m.Alexios Raul (d.1258)
3.Ioannes III Dukas Batatzes, Emperor of Byzantium in Nicaea (1192-1254); m.1st ca 1212
Eirene Laskarina (d.1239); m.2d 1244 Costanza von Hohenstaufen, dau.of Emperor Frederick II
3.1.Theodoros II Dukas Laskaris, Emperor of Byzantium in Nicaea, a philosopher and theologian
(1222-1258); m.1235 Elena (1224-ca 1254) dau.of Ivan Asen II, Tsar of Bulgaria
3.1.1.Ioannes IV Dukas Laskaris, Emperor of Byzantium 1258-61, blinded and imprisoned by
Emp Michael VIII; (1250-1305)
3.1.2.Eirene, d.1269/70; m.1258 Konstantin Zich Asen, Tsar of Bulgaria (d.1277)
3.1.3.Maria Dukaina Laskarina (d.1258); m.1256 Nikephoros I Angelos, Despot of Epirus
3.1.4.Theodora, d.after 1264; m.1st after 1258 Matthieu de Mons, Baron of Velligosti in Morea;
m.2d 1273 Jakow Sweitislaw, Tsar of part of Bulgaria (d.1273)
3.1.5.Eudokia, b.1254; m.1st 1262 Pietro, Cte di Ventimiglia (d.1278); m.2d 1281 Arnaud Roger
de Comminges, Cde de Pailhars

END OF SECTION VI.


SECTION VII. The Palaiologoi.
The early generations of this family are confused and uncertain. The first certain ancestor is one
Andronikos Dukas Komnenos Palaiologos, Gov of Thessalonica, d.after 1246; m.a cousin,
Theodora Palaiologina; they had issue:
1.Michael VIII Dukas Komnenos Palaiologos, Emperor of Byzantium 1259-82 (1224/5-1282);
m.1253 Theodora Dukaina Batatzaina (1240-1303)
1.1.Manuel (1254/7-ca 1259)
1.2.Andronikos II Palaiologos, Emp of Byzantium 1282-1328 (1259-1332); m.1st 1273 Anna
(d.1281/2) dau.of King Stephen V of Hungary; m.2d ca 1285 Yolanda=Eirene of Montferrat (1274-
1317)
[by 1st m.]:
1.2.1.Michael IX Palaiologos, co-emperor of Byzantium (1277-1320); m.1295 Rita (d.1333) dau.of
King Leon III of Armenia
1.2.1.1.Andronikos III Palaiologos, Emp of Byzantium 1328-41 (1296-1341); m.1st 1318
Adelaide=Eirene of Brunswick (d.1324); m.2d 1326 Joanna=Anna of Savoy (1306-1359/60)
1.2.1.1.1.a son, b.and d.1321
1.2.1.1.2.Ioannes V Palaiologos, Emp of Byzantium 1341-76 and 1379-91 (1332-1391); m.1347
Helene (1333-1396) dau.of Emp Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos of Byzantium
1.2.1.1.2.1.Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Emp of Byzantium 1376-9 (1348-1385); m.ca 1365
Keratza (1348-1390) dau.of Tsar Ivan Alexander Asen Srazimirovic of Bulgaria
1.2.1.1.2.1.1.Ioannes VII Palaiologos, co-emperor of Byzantium (1370-1408); m.before 1397
Eirene Gattilusaina (d.1440)
1.2.1.1.2.1.1.1.co-Emp Andronikos V, d.ca 1408, aged 7
1.2.1.1.2.2.Manuel II Palaiologos, Emp of Byzantium 1391-1425 (1350-1425); m.ca 1392 Jelena
(d.1450) dau.of Konstantine Dragas, a Serb noble
1.2.1.1.2.2.1.Ioannes VIII Palaiologos, Emp of Byzantium 1425-48 (1392-1448); m.1st ca 1411
Anna (1393-1417) dau.of Wassili I, Graet Pr of Moscow; m.2d 1421 (div 1426) Sophia of
Montferrat; m.3d 1427 Maria Komnene (d.1439) dau.of Emp Alexios of Trapezunt
1.2.1.1.2.2.2.Konstantinos Palaiologos (1393/7-1400/5)
1.2.1.1.2.2.3.Theodoros Palaiologos, Despot of Achaia, a scholar and mathematician (1394/9-
1448); m.1421 Cleofa Malatesta (d.1433)
1.2.1.1.2.2.3.1.Helene (1428-1458); m.1441 John de Lusignan, King of Cyprus (d.1458)
1.2.1.1.2.2.4.Andronikos Palaiologos, despot of Thessalonica (1400-1428); m.NN
1.2.1.1.2.2.4.1.Ioannes Palaiologos
1.2.1.1.2.2.5.Konstantinos XI Palaiologos, Emp of Byzantium 1448-53 (1405-1453); m.1st 1428
Maddalena-Theodora Tocco (d.1429); m.2d 1441 Aikatherina Gateliusaina (d.1442)
1.2.1.1.2.2.6.Michael Palaiologos(1406/7-1409-10)
1.2.1.1.2.2.7.Demetrios Palaiologos, Despot of Mistra, etc (1407/8-1470); m.1st 1436 Zoe
Paraspondylina (d.1440); m.2d 1441 Theodora Asanina (d.1470/1)
1.2.1.1.2.2.7.1.Helene (1442-1470), taken into the harem of Sultan Muhammed II, later released
1.2.1.1.2.2.8.Thomas Palaiologos, Despot of the Peloponesus (1409/10-1465); m.1430 Aikaterina
Zachariaina, Bss of Arcadia (d.1462)
1.2.1.1.2.2.8.1.Andreas Palaiologos, titular Despot of Morea (1453-1502); m.Caterina ___
1.2.1.1.2.2.8.1.1.Konstantinos Paleologo, commander of the papal guard
1.2.1.1.2.2.8.2.Manuel Palaiologos(1455-ca 1512)
1.2.1.1.2.2.8.2.1.Ioannes Palaiologos
1.2.1.1.2.2.8.2.2.Andreas, became a Moslem
1.2.1.1.2.2.8.3.Helene, d.1473; m.1446 Lazar Brankovic (d.1458)
1.2.1.1.2.2.8.4.Zoe-Sofia (1448/51-1503); m.1471 Ivan III, Great Pr of Moscow (d.1505)
1.2.1.1.2.2.9.[illegitimate]Isabella=Zabia; m.1392 Hilarion Doria (1372-1423)
1.2.1.1.2.3.Theodoros Palaiologos, Despot of Peloponesus (1351-1407); m. Bartholomaia
Acciacuoli, heiress of Corinth (d.1397)
1.2.1.1.2.3.1.[illegitimate]a dau., m.1404 Emir Suleiman (d.1410)
1.2.1.1.2.4.Michael Palaiologos; m.a dau. of Pr Dobrotich of Varna
1.2.1.1.2.5.Eirene Palaiologina, b.1349
1.2.1.1.2.6.[illegitimate]Manuel Palaiologos, d.after 1422
1.2.1.1.3.Michael Palaiologos (1337-ca 1370)
1.2.1.1.4.Theodoros Palaiologos, Gov of Lemnos, d.after 10 Aug 1405
1.2.1.1.5.Eirene Palaiologina (1327-after 1356); m.1336 Michael Asen of Bulgaria
1.2.1.1.6.Maria Palaiologina, heiress of Lesbos, d.1401; m.ca 1355 Francesco Gattilusio, patrician
of Genoa, Archon of Lesbos (d.1384)
1.2.1.1.7.Theodora Palaiologina, d.ca 1376; m. N Philanthropenos
1.2.1.1.8.[illegitimate]Eirene, Empress of Trapezunt 1341-1; m.1335 (div 1339) Emp Basileios I
Komnenos of Trapezunt (d.1340)
1.2.1.2.Manuel Palaiologos, killed by soldiers 1319
1.2.1.3.Anna Despoina Palaiologina, d.1321; m.1st 1313 Thomas Angelos, Despot of Epirus and
Aetolia (d.1318); m.2d 1318 Nikolaos Orsini, Ct of Cephallenia
1.2.1.4.Theodora Palaiologina; m.1st 1320 Tsar Theodor Swetoslav of Bulgaria (d.1321); m.2d
after Aug 1324 Tsar Michael III of Bulgaria (d.1330)
1.2.2.Konstantinos Palaiologos, despot of Thessalonica, d.after 1329; m.1st 1295 Theodora
Muzalon; m.2d Eudokia Neokaisareitissa
1.2.2.1.[illegitimate]Michael Katharos
[by 2d m.]:
1.2.3.Ioannes Palaiologos, despot of Thessalonica (1286-1307); m.1303 Eirene Chumnaina
(1292-1360)
1.2.4.Theodoros Palaiologos (1291-1338), he inherted his mothers margravate of Montferrat, and
his descendants held it until the last Paleologue, GianGiorgio Sebastiano, d.in 1533
1.2.5.Demetrios Angelodukas Palaiologos, d.after 1343
1.2.6.Bartholomaios, d.young
1.2.7.Isaakios, d.young
1.2.8.Theodora, d.young
1.2.9.Simonis, d.after 1336; m.1300 King Stepan Uros II of Serbia (d.1321)
1.2.10.[illegitimate]Maria; m.Tochtu Khan, of the Golden Horde
1.2.11.[illegitimate]Eirene; m.1315 Ioannes Dukas Angelos, Archon of Neiapatrai
1.3.Konstantinos Dukas Palaiologos, d.1306; m.1291 Eirene Raulaina
1.3.1.Ioannes Komnenos Palaiologos, despot of Macedonia (1291-1327); m.Eirene Metochitissa
1.3.1.1.Maria Palaiologina, d.1355; m.1325/6 King Stepan Uros III of Raska-Serbia (d.1331)
1.4.Theodoros Palaiologos, d.after 1310; m.ca 1293 a dau. of Libadarios
1.5.Eirene Palaiologina; m.1278 Tsar Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
1.6.Anna Komnene Palaiologina (1260-1299/1300); m.1278 Demetrios Michael Angelos
1.7.Eudokia Palaiologina, d.1302; m.1282 Ioannes II Komnenos, Emp of Trapezunt (d.1297)
1.8.[illegitimate]Euphrosyne=Eirene; m.1266 Nogaj Chan, of the Golden Horde (d.1293)
1.9.[illegitimate]Maria Palaiologina; m.1265 Ilchan of Iran; m.2d the Turkish Pr Charbanden
2.Ioannes Komnenos Palaiologos, d.1274; m.1st N Philantropene; m.2d ca 1259 N Tornikaine
2.1.Konstantinos Tornikes Palaiologos
2.2.Anna Palaiologina, d.1280; m.ca 1267 Nikolaos Maliasenos (d.1280)
3.Konstantinos Palaiologos, d.1271; m.1259/60 Eirene Branaina (d.1271)
3.1.Michael Palaiologos, a monk, d.ca 1321
3.2.Andronikos Palaiologos; m.Anna Tarchaneiotissa
3.3.Maria Palaiologina; m.Isaakios Tornikes
3.4.a dau., m.Tsar Smilec of Bulgaria
3.5.Theodora Palaiologina; m.Ioannes Synadenos
4.Maria Palaiologina, b.1216; m.ca 1237 Nikephoros Tarchaneiotes
5.Eirene Palaiologina (1218-1284); m.Ioannes Kantakuzenos

END OF SECTION VII.