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Second marriage: April 1204, Alexios V "Mourtzouflos" Doukas. The Emperor who lost Constantinople to the Crusaders. (Fourth Crusade). He managed to escape with Euphrosyne, mother of Eudokia and Eudokia and join Alexios in Thrace. He married Eudokia soon after<ref>A short History of Byzantium, by John Julius Norwich. Penguin History, page 304. ISBN 0-140-25960-0</ref> Alexios V Doukas was strangled soon after on the orders of her father Alexios III Angelos. | Second marriage: April 1204, Alexios V "Mourtzouflos" Doukas. The Emperor who lost Constantinople to the Crusaders. (Fourth Crusade). He managed to escape with Euphrosyne, mother of Eudokia and Eudokia and join Alexios in Thrace. He married Eudokia soon after<ref>A short History of Byzantium, by John Julius Norwich. Penguin History, page 304. ISBN 0-140-25960-0</ref> Alexios V Doukas was strangled soon after on the orders of her father Alexios III Angelos. | ||
| − | Third marriage: 1204 Leo Sgouros, after he offered asylum to her family. | + | Third marriage: 1204 Leo Sgouros, after he offered asylum to her family<ref>'''The History of Greece''' from its conquest by the Crusaders to its conquest by the Turks and of the '''Empire of Trebizond''' 1204-1461, by George Finlay. Published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London</ref>. |
Before marrying Alexios V Doukas, Eudokia was his Mistress in Constantinople | Before marrying Alexios V Doukas, Eudokia was his Mistress in Constantinople | ||
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Eudokia Angelos (Greek: Ευδοκια Αγγελος). was born before 1175 in Constantinople and died about 1211 in Acrocorintho.
Eudokia Angelos (Also known as Eudokia Angelina) was the third daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios III Angelos (1155 - 1211) and Euphosyne Kamateros (ca. 1158 - 1211) (also known as Doukaina Kamaterina although her father was Andronikos Kamateros and her mother Qirwerne Lalibela and there is no connection to the Douka family).
Eudokia had two older sisters, Irene Angelos and Anna Angelos, Empress of Nicaea.
Marriages
Eudokia married three times:
First marriage: In 1195 he married Stefan I "Prvovencani" Nemanja, Tsar of Serbia. 1195. The marriage produced 4 children. Allegedly, Eudokia left her husband and returned to Constantinole.
Second marriage: April 1204, Alexios V "Mourtzouflos" Doukas. The Emperor who lost Constantinople to the Crusaders. (Fourth Crusade). He managed to escape with Euphrosyne, mother of Eudokia and Eudokia and join Alexios in Thrace. He married Eudokia soon after[1] Alexios V Doukas was strangled soon after on the orders of her father Alexios III Angelos.
Third marriage: 1204 Leo Sgouros, after he offered asylum to her family[2].
Before marrying Alexios V Doukas, Eudokia was his Mistress in Constantinople
References
- ↑ A short History of Byzantium, by John Julius Norwich. Penguin History, page 304. ISBN 0-140-25960-0
- ↑ The History of Greece from its conquest by the Crusaders to its conquest by the Turks and of the Empire of Trebizond 1204-1461, by George Finlay. Published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London