Theodora Komnene (daughter of Alexios I)

Theodora Komnene (Greek: Θεοδώρα Κομνηνή; born 15 January 1096) was a Byzantine noblewoman, being the fourth daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.

Theodora was born in Constantinople 15 January 1096, the fourth of the five daughters, and seventh child overall, of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) and Irene Doukaina.

[1] In c. 1111 she married the nobleman Constantine Kourtikes,[a] but her husband died by 1118—Theodora is mentioned as a widow at that time—and the marriage remained childless.

[4] In c. 1122, certainly after the death of Alexios I, she married a second time, to Constantine Angelos, a minor noble from Philadelphia.

[8] Through her sons, Theodora was the progenitor of the Angelos dynasty, which produced three Byzantine emperors, as well as the Komnenodoukas family, which founded the state of Epirus–Thessalonica.