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Her first marriage was to Isaac Comnenus ''Sebastocrator'', a great-nephew of the emperor Manuel I Comnenus . They had one daughter, Theodora Angelina . Soon after Anna's father became emperor, in 1195, Isaac Comnenus was dispatched to combat the Vlach-Bulgarian Rebellion . He was captured, became a pawn between rival Bulgarian and Vlach factions, and died in chains.

Her second marriage to Theodore Lascaris , eventually emperor of Nicaea , was celebrated in a double wedding in early 1200 (the other couple was Anna's sister Irene and Alexius Palaeologus). Anna and Theodore had three daughters and two sons:
# Irene (Eirene), who married (1) general Andronicus Palaeologus; (2) John Vatatzes , emperor of Nicaea
# Maria (married King Bela IV Of Hungary )
# Eudocia (Evdokia)
# Nicholas (Nikolaos)
# John (Ioannes)


SOURCES

  • K. Varzos, ''I genealogia ton Komninon'' (Thessalonica, 1984).

  • ''O city of Byzantium: annals of Niketas Choniates'' tr. Harry J. Magoulias (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984) especially pages 255–258, 280.