Theodora Komnene, Duchess of Austria
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| name = Theodora Komnene
| image = Gertrud und Theodora Komnena.PNG
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| caption = Gertrude of Süpplingenburg and Theodora Komnene
| noble family = Komnenos
| father = Andronikos Komnenos
| mother = Eirene
| spouse = Henry II, Duke of Austria
| issue = Agnes, Queen of Hungary
Leopold V, Duke of Austria
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| birth_place = Constantinople
| death_date = {{death date|1184|1|2|df=y}}
| death_place = Vienna
}}
Theodora Komnene ({{langx|el|Θεοδώρα ἡ Κομνηνή}}, born circa 1134, died 2 January 1184), Latinized Theodora Comnena, was a daughter of the Byzantine prince Andronikos Komnenos and his wife, Eirene (?Aineiadissa). Based on the writings of Niketas Choniates, it is likely Theodora was Andronikos' second daughter. The year of Theodora's birth is unknown.
Life and Death
Little is known of Theodora's early life, except that her father died in 1142. She does not appear in the historical record again until the late 1140s, when she was betrothed to and married Henry II of Austria, whose first wife, Gertrude of Supplingenburg had died in 1143.{{sfn|Lyon|2013|p=242}} The marriage had been arranged by her uncle, Manuel I and her eventual husband's half-brother, Conrad III of Germany, during the latter's stay in Constantinople.Runciman (1978), Vol. 2, p. 270
Theodora and Henry were married in Constantinople, and subsequently granted the Duchy of Austria by Frederick I Barbarossa in 1156.Fuhrmann, H., trans. Reuter, T. (1995) Germany in the high middle ages c.1050-1200 (1995), p. 150
Theodora died on 2 January 1184.Continuatio Zwetlensis Altera 1184, MGH SS IX, p. 542Necrologium Seccoviense, Salzburg Necrologies (Regio Styriaca), p. 403
Family
Theodora had three children by her husband Henry:
- Agnès (?1154 – 13 January 1182) married to Stephen III of Hungary{{sfn|Lyon|2013|p=242}}
- Leopold V, Duke of Austria (1157 – 31 December 1194){{sfn|Lyon|2013|p=242}}
- Henry, Duke of Mödling (1158 – 31 August 1223) married Richeza of Bohemia, daughter of Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia.{{sfn|Lyon|2013|p=242}}
Ancestry
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|1= 1. Theodora Komnene
|2= 2. Andronikos Komnenos
|3= 3. Eirene (?Aineiadissa)
|4= 4. John II Komnenos
|5= 5. Piroska of Hungary
|8= 8. Alexios I Komnenos
|9= 9. Irene Doukaina
|10= 10. Ladislaus I of Hungary
|11= 11. Adelaide of Swabia
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References
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Sources
- {{cite book |title=Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100–1250 |first=Jonathan R. |last=Lyon |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2013 }}
- Runciman, S.; A History of the Crusades, Vols. 1-3 (Penguin Books, 1978)
- Fuhrmann, H., (trans. Reuter, T.); Germany in the high middle ages c.1050-1200 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
- Pertz, G. H. (ed.); Auctarium Zwetlensis et Continuatio (Hannover, 1851, 1925)
- Hereberg-Fränke, S. (ed.); Diocesis Salisburgensis Regiones Salisburgensis et Bavarica (Berlin, 1904)
- Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, [https://oeaw.academia.edu/JohannesPreiserKapeller/Papers/640940/Von_Ostarrichi_an_den_Bosporus._Ein_Uberblick_zu_den_Beziehungen_im_Mittelalter_From_Ostarrichi_to_the_Bosporus_an_overview_of_relations_in_the_Middle_Ages_ Von Ostarrichi an den Bosporus. Ein Überblick zu den Beziehungen im Mittelalter] (From Ostarrichi to the Bosporus: an overview of relations in the Middle Ages), in: Pro Oriente Jahrbuch 2010. Vienna 2011, p. 66-77
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Category:12th-century Byzantine people