Queen of Sicily and Germany, Irene Maria Angelina - My 24th Great Grandmother
When I was little, my father used to call me Angelina so I think its fitting that we start with her.
Irini Maria Angelina is my 24th great grandmother.
Here is the relationship path:
Angela Jossy You → Carl Jossy
your father → Inez Isadora Imus
his mother → Jiles Herbert Imus
her father → Hiram M. Imus
his father → Charles Lemuel Imus
his father → Lucy Imus
his mother → Joseph Buck
her father → Mary Buck
his mother → Mary Andrews
her mother → Lydia Wetmore
her mother → Isabel Hewett
her mother → Rev. Valentine Overton, Archdeacon of Derby
her father → Rev. William Overton
his father → Olive Overton
his mother → Robert Browne, Esq.
her father → Sir John Browne, Lord Mayor of London
his father → Eleanore Fitzalan
his mother → Sir Thomas FitzAlan, de Arundel
her father → Sir John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, 2nd Baron Maltravers
his father → John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel
his father → Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel and Warenne
his mother → Henry of Lancaster
her father → Blanche of Artois
his mother → Mathilde van Brabant
her mother → Maria von Hohenstaufen
her mother → Irini Maria Angelina
your father → Inez Isadora Imus
his mother → Jiles Herbert Imus
her father → Hiram M. Imus
his father → Charles Lemuel Imus
his father → Lucy Imus
his mother → Joseph Buck
her father → Mary Buck
his mother → Mary Andrews
her mother → Lydia Wetmore
her mother → Isabel Hewett
her mother → Rev. Valentine Overton, Archdeacon of Derby
her father → Rev. William Overton
his father → Olive Overton
his mother → Robert Browne, Esq.
her father → Sir John Browne, Lord Mayor of London
his father → Eleanore Fitzalan
his mother → Sir Thomas FitzAlan, de Arundel
her father → Sir John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, 2nd Baron Maltravers
his father → John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel
his father → Eleanor of Lancaster, Countess of Arundel and Warenne
his mother → Henry of Lancaster
her father → Blanche of Artois
his mother → Mathilde van Brabant
her mother → Maria von Hohenstaufen
her mother → Irini Maria Angelina
Life (from wikipedia)
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.[1] 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.[1] 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 consolidate 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 1208, she gave birth to another daughter (called Beatrix Posthuma). Both mother and child died shortly afterwards.[1] 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
Philip and Irene had seven children, two sons (Reinald and Frederick) who died in infancy and five 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.
- Beatrice Postuma (27 August 1208 - 1208), she died some months after her birth in the Hohenstaufen Castle.
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").
Present day grave marker
"In 1193 Irene Angelina married for the first time. Her husband, Roger III, was the eldest son of King Tancred of Sicily and the heir to the throne. Roger III ruled together with his father, but died before his father in December 1193, shortly before his father followed him. As Irene and Roger had no children, King Tancred’s aunt Constance and her husband, Emperor Henry VI, claimed the throne. Irene was captured by Henry in December 1194 and married to his younger brother, Duke Philip of Swabia.
Her second marriage was more successful than her first. After the death of the Emperor, Philip became King of the Romans in 1198 by election in Mühlhausen, Germany. Queen Irene apparently had a good relationship with her second husband and managed to influence him in his political decisions. They had seven children together, two sons and four daughters. Only her daughters survived.
Irene Angelina’s husband was murdered by Otto VIII of Wittelsbach on 21 June 1208. Pregnant, she retired to Hohenstaufen Castle (Göppingen, Southern Germany), where she gave birth to another daughter on 27 August. Mother and child died shortly afterwards and were buried in the family’s mausoleum in the monastery of Lorch Abbey. The grave was later destroyed. However, a replica of her gravestone can be admired in the abbey today. It includes a quote from the famous minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide who praised Irene in a poem on Philip’s Christmas celebrations: “Eine rose ane dorn, ein tube sunder gallen” – “A rose without a thorn, a dove without gall.”
SOURCE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9954165#
SOURCE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9954165#
The last place she lived was Hohenstaufen Castle
It was built by my 27th Great Grandfather Frederick I, duke of Swabia who also built Lorch Abby where Irene Angelina was buried. Its a ruin now but in its day it was a sight to behold.The Ring of Irene
"In 1830 a golden ring was found under the remains of a large stone coffin. It showed the Virgin Mary and the symbols of the life of Jesus Christ: A cross, a ladder, a rod, three cubes (with which Roman soldiers gambled for the shift of Christ), a hammer, a pair of pliers and a drop of blood. Above the symbols were the initials IHS, Jesus Hominium Salvato = Jesus, saviour of humankind.
However, the ring was lost in the 20th century. To this day its design is very popular for engagement rings in Southern Germany. A replica can also be seen at Lorch Abbey. Unfortunately, Hohenstaufen Castle, where she spent the last weeks of her life, does not exist anymore."
Source: https://www.
Source: https://www.
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Irene Angelina (1181-27 August 1208) was Queen of Germany from 1198 to 1208 with Philip of Swabia.
Biography
Irene Angelina was born in 1181, the daughter of Isaac II of Byzantium and Irene Palaiologina. In 1193, she was married to Roger III of Sicily, but he died before he become solo king; Irene's short tenure as Queen of Sicily would land her in trouble, as Henry VI of Germany captured her during his conquest of Sicily. She married his son Duke Philip of Swabia, and she sought to convince the Holy Roman Empire to support her father's reinstatement as Emperor of the Byzantine Empire; he had been deposed in 1185. On 21 June 1208, she was widowed a second time when her husband was assassinated by the House of Welf, and she died in childbirth on 27 August 1208.
Source: https://historica.fandom.com/
Biography
Irene Angelina was born in 1181, the daughter of Isaac II of Byzantium and Irene Palaiologina. In 1193, she was married to Roger III of Sicily, but he died before he become solo king; Irene's short tenure as Queen of Sicily would land her in trouble, as Henry VI of Germany captured her during his conquest of Sicily. She married his son Duke Philip of Swabia, and she sought to convince the Holy Roman Empire to support her father's reinstatement as Emperor of the Byzantine Empire; he had been deposed in 1185. On 21 June 1208, she was widowed a second time when her husband was assassinated by the House of Welf, and she died in childbirth on 27 August 1208.
Source: https://historica.fandom.com/
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Her second husband - my 24th Great Grandfather
Philip, also called Philip of Swabia, German Philipp von Schwaben, (born 1178—died June 21, 1208, Bamberg, Ger.), German Hohenstaufen king whose rivalry for the crown involved him in a decade of warfare with the Welf Otto IV.
The youngest son of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, Philip was destined for the church. After being provost of the cathedral at Aachen, he was, in 1190 or 1191, elected bishop of Würzburg. Shortly after the death of his brother Frederick (1191), however, he abandoned his ecclesiastical career. Another brother, the Holy Roman emperor Henry VI, made him duke of Tuscany in 1195 and duke of Swabia in 1196. In May 1197 he married Irene, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelus.
At Henry VI’s death in September 1197, his son, the future emperor Frederick II, was less than three years old, and the German princes were unwilling to accept him as king. The princes favourable to the Hohenstaufens elected Philip German king in March 1198. The opposing party, led by Archbishop Adolf of Cologne, elected Otto, a son of Henry the Lion of Brunswick of the rival Welf dynasty, king in June of that year. Otto was crowned at Aachen, the proper place for the ceremony, by Archbishop Adolf. Philip’s coronation, by another prelate, did not take place until September 1198 at Mainz.In the ensuing civil war the Hohenstaufen cause prospered at first. In 1201, however, Pope Innocent III recognized Otto as king and excommunicated Philip. Philip’s fortunes were only restored in 1204, by a series of defections from Otto’s side, culminating in that of Adolf of Cologne himself. In June 1205, Adolf crowned Philip at Aachen.
The city of Cologne, which, notwithstanding its archbishop, had sided with Otto, was captured in January 1207, and Otto’s cause seemed lost. Late in 1207, however, when Philip offered to give Otto one of his daughters in marriage and to enfeoff him with either the duchy of Swabia or the kingdom of Arles, Otto, buoyed by hopes of financial, if not military, support from the kings of England and Denmark, rejected the offer. Nevertheless, a truce was arranged that lasted until June of the following year.
In 1208 Pope Innocent III recognized Philip as king and promised to crown him emperor. Philip, who had mobilized his army at Bamberg in order to move against Otto, was waiting for the truce to expire when he was murdered by Otto of Wittelsbach, count Palatine of Bavaria, to whom he had refused to give one of his daughters in marriage. Eventually his daughters were married: Beatrix the Elder to his old rival Otto, Cunigunda to King Wenceslas of Bohemia, and Beatrix the Younger to Ferdinand III of Castile.
A brave man, Philip was praised by contemporaries for his mildness and generosity.
SOURCE: https://www.
Philip Hohenstaufen, King of Germany
Alternative Titles: Philip of Swabia, Philipp von Schwaben
The youngest son of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, Philip was destined for the church. After being provost of the cathedral at Aachen, he was, in 1190 or 1191, elected bishop of Würzburg. Shortly after the death of his brother Frederick (1191), however, he abandoned his ecclesiastical career. Another brother, the Holy Roman emperor Henry VI, made him duke of Tuscany in 1195 and duke of Swabia in 1196. In May 1197 he married Irene, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelus.
At Henry VI’s death in September 1197, his son, the future emperor Frederick II, was less than three years old, and the German princes were unwilling to accept him as king. The princes favourable to the Hohenstaufens elected Philip German king in March 1198. The opposing party, led by Archbishop Adolf of Cologne, elected Otto, a son of Henry the Lion of Brunswick of the rival Welf dynasty, king in June of that year. Otto was crowned at Aachen, the proper place for the ceremony, by Archbishop Adolf. Philip’s coronation, by another prelate, did not take place until September 1198 at Mainz.In the ensuing civil war the Hohenstaufen cause prospered at first. In 1201, however, Pope Innocent III recognized Otto as king and excommunicated Philip. Philip’s fortunes were only restored in 1204, by a series of defections from Otto’s side, culminating in that of Adolf of Cologne himself. In June 1205, Adolf crowned Philip at Aachen.
The city of Cologne, which, notwithstanding its archbishop, had sided with Otto, was captured in January 1207, and Otto’s cause seemed lost. Late in 1207, however, when Philip offered to give Otto one of his daughters in marriage and to enfeoff him with either the duchy of Swabia or the kingdom of Arles, Otto, buoyed by hopes of financial, if not military, support from the kings of England and Denmark, rejected the offer. Nevertheless, a truce was arranged that lasted until June of the following year.
In 1208 Pope Innocent III recognized Philip as king and promised to crown him emperor. Philip, who had mobilized his army at Bamberg in order to move against Otto, was waiting for the truce to expire when he was murdered by Otto of Wittelsbach, count Palatine of Bavaria, to whom he had refused to give one of his daughters in marriage. Eventually his daughters were married: Beatrix the Elder to his old rival Otto, Cunigunda to King Wenceslas of Bohemia, and Beatrix the Younger to Ferdinand III of Castile.
A brave man, Philip was praised by contemporaries for his mildness and generosity.
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