Byzantine Traditions

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Leo van de Pas

Byzantine Traditions

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 04 sep 2007 13:44:55

In ES Volume II Tafel 179 the Angeloi family is recorded. There is Emperor Isaac II and with him his two wives.
Wife nr 1 is NN
their children, Alexios IV, an unnamed daughter, and Eirene (Maria)
Wife nr 2 is Margaretha of Hungary
their children Manuel and Ioannes

I understand that in Byzantium children were not named after their parents, BUT daughter Eirene has on her necrology the name of her mother recorded, and it appears that NN is Herina (Eirene).

Could the mother's name have been a monastic one? Was she perhaps divorced by Isaac II ? There doesn't seem to be any record of this first wife of Isaac II. Does anyone know?

With best wishes
Leo van de Pas,
Canberra, Australia

Christopher Ingham

Re: Byzantine Traditions

Legg inn av Christopher Ingham » 04 sep 2007 18:02:50

On Sep 4, 8:44 am, "Leo van de Pas" <leovd...@netspeed.com.au> wrote:
In ES Volume II Tafel 179 the Angeloi family is recorded. There is Emperor Isaac II and with him his two wives.
Wife nr 1 is NN
their children, Alexios IV, an unnamed daughter, and Eirene (Maria)
Wife nr 2 is Margaretha of Hungary
their children Manuel and Ioannes

I understand that in Byzantium children were not named after their parents, BUT daughter Eirene has on her necrology the name of her mother recorded, and it appears that NN is Herina (Eirene).

Could the mother's name have been a monastic one? Was she perhaps divorced by Isaac II ? There doesn't seem to be any record of this first wife of Isaac II. Does anyone know?

With best wishes
Leo van de Pas,
Canberra, Australia

The secondary sources derive almost all information about the reign of
Isaac II Angelos from the_Historia_of Nicetas Choniates (ed. J. L. van
Dieten [Berlin and New York, 1975]), and none identify the first wife
of Isaac. The chart of selected genealogy of the Angelos dynasty
in_ODB_ (s.v. "Angelos" [A. P. Kazhdan]) concurs with your list of the
three children by the first marriage, but does not provide information
about any others. Margaret, the daughter of Bela III of Hungary, was
given in marriage to Isaac as part of a peace treaty; she was ten
years old at the time, and subsequently took the Byzantine name of
Mary. [J. J. Norwich,_Byzantium_(New York, 1995), 3.157;_ODB_, s.v.
"Isaac II Angelos" (C. M. Brand and A. Cutler).]

Christopher Ingham

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