Irene Komnene Doukaina

Irene Angelos Comnenus or Komnenos Eirene (Greek: Ειρήνη Κομνηνή, Bulgarian Ирина Комнина / Irina Komnina ) was a Bulgarian Empress and third wife of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II, and mother of the common son of Tsar Michael Asen II of Bulgaria.

Irene Angelos Comnenus is the daughter of the despot of Epirus Theodore I. Angelos and Mary Petraliphaina. In the year 1230 came Irene and her family after the battle of Klokotnitsa in captivity and were taken by the troops of Tsar Ivan Asen II in the Bulgarian capital Tarnovo. Irene grew up there in the Tsar's palace, where they noticed the Tsar widowed by her beauty and both married in 1237. According to a Byzantine author Tsar Ivan Asen II Irene loved no less than Mark Antony Cleopatra, and she was in 1237 before his mistress.

With the marriage of Irene violated the Bulgarian Tsar against the church canon, his daughter Maria was married from his first marriage to the uncle of Irene Manuel Angelos. For this reason, the Bulgarian Patriarch Wisarion denied the blessing of marriage, which eventually cost him life.

Irene and Ivan Asen II had three children:

Ivan Asen II died in 1241 and was succeeded by his son on the throne Kaliman Asen I., born from his second marriage to Anna Maria of Hungary. Kaliman Asen I. However, in 1246 poisoned and the new Czar of the underage son of Irene, Michael Asen II was elected.

• Angels ( noble )
• Monarch (Bulgaria)
• Byzantine
• Born in the 12th or 13th century
• Died in the 13th century
• Woman