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2 unusual facts about Theodora Komnene


Gertrude of Süpplingenburg

Henry later married his second wife, Theodora Komnene.

Theodora Komnene

Attard, archbishop of Nazareth, Humphrey II of Toron, constable of Jerusalem, Joscelin Piscellus, and William de Barris were sent to Constantinople to negotiate a marriage for the king (Attard died while on the mission).


Andronikashvili

The surname Andronikashvili, meaning "children descendants of Andronikos", is attested in sixteenth-century documents, but oral tradition has it that the family descends from Alexius Comnenus (c. 1170—1199), the illegitimate son of the Eastern Roman emperor Andronikos I Komnenos (ruled 1183-1185) by his mistress and relative Theodora Komnene, Queen Dowager of Jerusalem.


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