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<div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><b>Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene</b> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Άννα Καντακουζηνή</span>) (died after 1313) was the niece of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine">Byzantine</a> emperor <a href="/wiki/Michael_VIII_Palaiologos" title="Michael VIII Palaiologos">Michael VIII Palaiologos</a>, second wife of <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_I_Komnenos_Doukas" title="Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas">Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas</a> of <a href="/wiki/Despotate_of_Epirus" title="Despotate of Epirus">Epirus</a> and regent of Epirus upon his death around 1297. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anna_Palaiologina_Kantakouzene&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Anna was the third of four daughters born to <a href="/wiki/John_Kantakouzenos_(pinkernes)" title="John Kantakouzenos (pinkernes)">John Kantakouzenos</a> and his wife Irene Palaiologia (<a href="/wiki/Eulogia_Palaiologina" class="mw-redirect" title="Eulogia Palaiologina">Eulogia Palaiologina</a>), sister of <a href="/wiki/Michael_VIII_Palaiologos" title="Michael VIII Palaiologos">Michael VIII Palaiologos</a>. Anna and her three sisters all lived to adulthood, they were: <a href="/wiki/Theodora_Raoulaina" title="Theodora Raoulaina">Theodora Raoulaina</a>, wife of <a href="/wiki/George_Mouzalon" title="George Mouzalon">George Mouzalon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maria_Palaiologina_Kantakouzene" title="Maria Palaiologina Kantakouzene">Maria Palaiologina Kantakouzene</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Bulgarian_consorts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Bulgarian consorts">Empress consort of Bulgaria</a> and Eugenia Palaiologina Kantakouzene, wife of Syrgiannes and mother of <a href="/wiki/Syrgiannes_Palaiologos" title="Syrgiannes Palaiologos">Syrgiannes Palaiologos</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_to_Nikephoros">Marriage to Nikephoros</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anna_Palaiologina_Kantakouzene&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marriage to Nikephoros"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Anna was married in the autumn of 1264 to <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_I_Komnenos_Doukas" title="Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas">Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas</a> as part of a peace agreement between her uncle Emperor Michael and Nikephoros' father <a href="/wiki/Michael_II_Komnenos_Doukas" title="Michael II Komnenos Doukas">Michael II Komnenos Doukas</a>, the leader of the pro-Byzantine party in <a href="/wiki/Epirus" title="Epirus">Epirus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Anna dominated her husband,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> similar to her sisters Maria and Theodora. She became Despotess of <a href="/wiki/Neopatras" class="mw-redirect" title="Neopatras">Neopatras</a> in 1289. Nikephoros had been married once before to Maria, the daughter of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Theodore_II_Laskaris" title="Theodore II Laskaris">Theodore II Doukas Laskaris</a> and had one daughter, <a href="/wiki/Maria_Komnene_Doukaina" title="Maria Komnene Doukaina">Maria</a>. </p><p>After the restoration of Orthodoxy under <a href="/wiki/Andronikos_II_Palaiologos" title="Andronikos II Palaiologos">Andronikos II Palaiologos</a> in 1282, Nikephoros renewed the alliance with the Byzantine Empire through Anna, who travelled to <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> to arrange the treaty; Anna herself served the interests of the Byzantine court. In 1284 they lured Michael, the son of <a href="/wiki/John_Doukas_of_Thessaly" class="mw-redirect" title="John Doukas of Thessaly">John Doukas of Thessaly</a>, to Epirus with the promise of a dynastic alliance, and had him arrested and sent off to Constantinople. This drew Nikephoros into a war against his half-brother, who ravaged the environs of <a href="/wiki/Arta,_Greece" title="Arta, Greece">Arta</a> in retaliation in 1285. Anna embarked on an ambitious project of uniting the houses of Epirus and Constantinople by marrying her daughter <a href="/wiki/Thamar_Angelina_Komnene" title="Thamar Angelina Komnene">Thamar</a> to <a href="/wiki/Michael_IX_Palaiologos" title="Michael IX Palaiologos">Michael IX Palaiologos</a>, Andronikos II's son and co-emperor. Although this project failed, in 1290 her young son <a href="/wiki/Thomas_I_Komnenos_Doukas" title="Thomas I Komnenos Doukas">Thomas</a> was conferred the dignity of <a href="/wiki/Despot_(court_title)" title="Despot (court title)">Despot</a> by the emperor. </p><p>The anti-Byzantine aristocracy now persuaded Nikephoros to open negotiations with King <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_Naples" title="Charles II of Naples">Charles II of Naples</a> in 1291, which provoked a Byzantine invasion. This sealed the alliance with <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples" title="Kingdom of Naples">Naples</a>, and Charles II's intervention through his vassals Count <a href="/wiki/Riccardo_Orsini" class="mw-redirect" title="Riccardo Orsini">Riccardo Orsini</a> of <a href="/wiki/County_palatine_of_Cephalonia_and_Zakynthos" class="mw-redirect" title="County palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos">Cephalonia</a> and Prince <a href="/wiki/Florent_of_Hainaut" title="Florent of Hainaut">Florent of Achaea</a> helped contain the Byzantine advance. The couple married Maria to the heir to Cephalonia and their daughter Thamar to Charles II's son <a href="/wiki/Philip_I_of_Taranto" class="mw-redirect" title="Philip I of Taranto">Philip I of Taranto</a>. Thamar was given the right to inherit Epirus instead of her brother, and Charles II promised that she would be allowed to remain in the Orthodox faith. The wedding took place in 1294 and involved the transfer of several coastal fortresses to Philip as Thamar's dowry. Philip simultaneously received his father's rights and claims in <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regency">Regency</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anna_Palaiologina_Kantakouzene&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Regency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nikephoros died between September 1296 and July 1298. Anna ensured the succession of their underage son Thomas, although Philip had been promised to inherit Epirus in right of his wife Thamar. Charles II of Naples demanded that Epirus be turned over to Philip and Thamar, but Anna refused, claiming that the arrangement had been broken when Thamar had been forced to abandon her Orthodox faith. In 1304 Anna sought support from Emperor Andronikos II. An alliance was concluded and sealed by the marriage of young Thomas to <a href="/wiki/Anna_Palaiologina_(daughter_of_Michael_IX)" title="Anna Palaiologina (daughter of Michael IX)">Anna Palaiologina</a>, the daughter of the co-Emperor Michael IX Palaiologos, Andronikos' granddaughter.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The actual marriage took place in 1307 or 1313. In the meantime Charles II sent troops into Epirus, but they were repulsed and the Epirotes advanced into the <a href="/wiki/Capetian_House_of_Anjou" title="Capetian House of Anjou">Angevin</a> lands in the western Balkans, recovering <a href="/wiki/Butrint" title="Butrint">Butrint</a> and <a href="/wiki/Naupaktos" class="mw-redirect" title="Naupaktos">Naupaktos</a> in 1304–1305. A new Angevin invasion in 1307, aiming to overthrow Anna <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ended with a compromise by which Philip of Taranto was ceded many of the fortresses that had been retaken by the Epirotes in the previous war. </p><p>Anna is last mentioned as part of the list of Barons "de Romania" with whom the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a> maintained relations in 1313, her fate is unknown after this point.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Issue">Issue</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anna_Palaiologina_Kantakouzene&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Issue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Anna and Nikephoros had three children:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thamar_Angelina_Komnene" title="Thamar Angelina Komnene">Thamar</a>, who married <a href="/wiki/Philip_I_of_Taranto" class="mw-redirect" title="Philip I of Taranto">Philip I of Taranto</a>, a son of King <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_Naples" title="Charles II of Naples">Charles II of Naples</a>.</li> <li>Michael, who was a hostage at Naples in 1279 but returned to his parents in 1281. He presumably died before his father.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_I_Komnenos_Doukas" title="Thomas I Komnenos Doukas">Thomas</a>, who succeeded as ruler of Epirus.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anna_Palaiologina_Kantakouzene&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fine (1994), p. 169.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fine (1994), p. 235.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fine (1994), p. 237.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Women In Power 1250 - 1300</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hopf, C. 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