Irene Palaiologos

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Irene Komnene Laskarina Branaina (Greek: Ειρήνη Κομνηνή Λασκαρίνα Βρανᾶίνα; died around 1271) was a Byzantine noblewoman and wife of sebastokrator Constantine Palaiologos, half-brother of Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. She seems to have followed suit after her husband's retirement to a convent, and taken the monastic name of Maria. She probably died as a nun.

 Marriage and family

Irene was the granddaughter of Byzantine General Theodore Branas and Agnes of France, though the Branas genealogy is poorly recorded.

Irene was married c. 1259/60 to Constantine Palaiologos, by whom he seems to have had five children"

• Michael Komnenos Branas Palaiologos
• Andronikos Branas Doukas Angelos Palaiologos
• Maria Komnene Branaina Laskarina Doukaina Tornikina Palaiologina. Married Isaac Komnenos Doukas Tornikios.
• Theodora. Married John Komnenos Doukas Angelos Synadenos and had three children. Later became a nun under the name Theodoule.
• Daughter (name unknown). Married Smilets of Bulgaria.

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1. EIRENE Komnene Laskarina Branaina ( -[1271] ). Pachymeres records the marriage of "Branæ filiam" and "alterum…fratrum Constantinum…cæsarem" (referring to the future Emperor Mikhael VIII)[948]. An undated seal records “Irène Comnène cæsarissa femme du césar du nom d’Ange”[949]. She became a nun as MARIA.

m ([1259/60]) KONSTANTINOS Angelos Komnenos Doukas Palaiologos, sébastokrator, son of ANDRONIKOS Doukas Komnenos Palaiologos, megas domestikos, doux of Thessaloniki & his first wife Theodora Palaiologina (-1271).

 Father by Greek Wikipedia: 

• https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B7_...

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Origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Branas

The Branas family in the later 13th century held extensive estates around Smyrna in Anatolia, they seem to have returned fully into Byzantine society and Theodore's granddaughter Irene married into the imperial family of the Palaiologoi.[16]

16. Saint-Guillain, G. (1216) Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204, Routledge. Page 108

• /!\ NOT Eirene Laskarina (1198-1239) /!\

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References

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Palaiologos_(half-brother.... cites
   1. 5. George Pachymeres, De Michaele Palaeologo & Andronicus Palæologus. Vol I, De Michaele Palaeologo, Liber II, 5, p. 97