Editing Isaac II Angelos (section)

==Family==
Isaac II's first wife's name, Herina (i.e., Irene), is found on the necrology of [[Speyer Cathedral]], where their daughter Irene is interred.<ref>Klaniczay, Gabor. ''Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe''. Translated by Eva Palmai. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 99–100.</ref> The first wife of Isaac II is usually considered to be a Byzantine noblewoman of unknown name. In an Italian edition of the chronicle of Nicetas Choniates "Greatness and catastrophe of Byzantium" can be found an interesting note to the XIV Book. The names of Isaac II's first wife and eldest daughter, unknown from Byzantine sources, are found in an obituary in the Cathedral of Speyer, the pantheon of German kings. Here, the wife of Philip of Swabia is said to be the daughter of Isaac and Irene (there is reference to the following article: R. Hiestand, Die erste Ehe Isaaks II. Angelos und seine Kinder, in Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Byzantinisk, XLVII 1997 pp. 199–208). This Irene could be identified with the daughter of George Palaiologos Doukas Komnenos and wife Aspae, Bagratid Princess of Ossetia; the son of this one, Andronikos Palaiologos Komnenodoukas, is known as gambrox (''γαμβρός'') of Isaac II. Isaac's wife was possibly daughter of Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (died 1185). A potential foreign origin is also given to her due to having the same name as her daughter, contrary to long-standing Greek custom. Their third child was born in 1182 or 1183 and she was dead or divorced by 1185, when Isaac remarried. Their children were: 
* [[Anna-Euphrosyne|Anna-Euphrosyne Angelina]], married to [[Roman the Great]].
* [[Irene Angelina]] (c. 1181–1208), married first to [[Roger III of Sicily]] and secondly to [[Philip of Swabia]]. Isaac is the ancestor of all European monarchs now reigning through Irene's children by Philip. 
* [[Alexios IV Angelos]] (c. 1182–1204).

By his second wife, [[Margaret of Hungary]] (who took the baptismal name "Maria"), Isaac II had two sons: 
* Manuel Angelos (b. after 1195&nbsp;– d. 1212), he was evidently the elder son, being contemplated in 1205 to ascend the Byzantine throne<ref>{{cite book |title=The Princes of Achaia and the Chronicles of Morea: A Study of Greece in the Middle Ages |volume=1 |first=Rennell |last=Rodd |year=1907 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ubQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA78}}</ref>
* [[John Angelus of Syrmia|John Angelos]] (b. ca. 1193&nbsp;– d. 1259). He migrated to Hungary and ruled over [[Syrmia]] and [[Bač, Serbia|Bacs]] (1227–42) as a vassal of king [[Béla IV of Hungary]].