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Birth:          ABT 1181 Constantinople
Death:          27 Aug 1208 Hohenstaufen
Cause of Death: murdered
Burial:         Lorsch

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Angelina
Irene Angelina (Greek: ?????? ???e???a; c. 1181 – 27 August 1208), was a Byzantine 
princess member of the Angelos dynasty and by her two marriages Queen of Sicily in 
1193 and Queen of Germany from 1198 to 1208.

She was the second daughter of Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos and his first wife, 
an unknown Palaiologina? who became nun with the name Irene.
Life[edit]

Irene was born in Constantinople, her father Isaac II inaugurated his reign with a 
decisive victory over the Norman invaders on the Balkans in the 1185 Battle of 
Demetritzes. In 1193 he and King Tancred of Sicily arranged Irene's marriage with 
Tancred's eldest son, Roger. Roger was declared co-king, but died on 24 December 
1193, shortly before his father's death on 20 February 1194. Sicily was claimed by 
Tancred's aunt Constance and her husband, Emperor Henry VI. After he had 
conquered the Sicilian kingdom, Irene was captured on 29 December 1194 and was 
married on 25 May 1197 to Henry's younger brother, Duke Philip of Swabia. In 
Germany, she was renamed Maria.

After the Emperor had died on September 28, Philip was elected King of the Romans 
in Mühlhausen on 8 March 1198. Queen Irene's 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. Rivalled by the Welf scion Otto IV, Philip was able to stable 
his rule over the German kingdom. On 21 June 1208, he was killed by the Bavarian 
Count Palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach, leaving Irene widowed a second time.

After the murder of her husband, Irene - who was pregnant at the time - retired to 
Hohenstaufen Castle. There, two months later on 27 August, she gave birth to another 
daughter (called Beatrix Posthuma). 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 was destroyed and cannot be 
reconstructed.

Issue[edit]

Philip and Irene had seven children, two sons (Reinald and Frederick) who died in 
infancy and four daughters:
Beatrix (April/June 1198 – 11 August 1212), married her father's rival Emperor Otto IV 
in 1212 and died three weeks later without issue.
Maria (3 April 1201 – 29 March 1235), married Duke Henry, Hereditary Prince of 
Brabant (later Duke Henry II), by whom she had issue.
Kunigunde (February/March 1202 – 13 September 1248), married King Wenceslaus I of 
Bohemia, by whom she had issue.
Elisabeth (March/May 1205 – 5 November 1235), married King Ferdinand III of Castile, 
by whom she had issue.

Legacy[edit]

In his poem on King Philip's Magdeburg Christmas celebrations, the minnesinger 
Walther von der Vogelweide described Irene as rose ane dorn, ein tube sunder gallen 
(Middle High German for "rose without a thorn, a dove without gall").

Parents
ANGELOS Isaakios II (Sep 1156 - Jan 1204)
KOMNENA Eirene (ABT 1164 - )

Siblings
ANGELINA Irene (Eirene) (Irini) Maria (ABT 1181 - 27 Aug 1208)

Marriage To VON HOHENSTAUFEN Philipp II (Feb 1177 - 21 Jun 1208)
    m. 25 May 1197 

Notes

Parents
____ Frederick (Friedrich) III "Barbarossa" (1122 - 10 Jun 1190)
OF BURGUNDY (OF MACON) Beatrice (Beatrix) (1143 - 15 Nov 1184)

Children by VON HOHENSTAUFEN Philipp II Feb 1177 - 21 Jun 1208
VON HOHENSTAUFEN Maria (3 Apr 1201 - 29 Mar 1235)
VON HOHENSTAUFEN Elizabeth (1205 - 5 Nov 1235)

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