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Agnes of France, renamed Anna (1171 – 1220/after 1240), was Byzantine empress by marriage to Alexios II Komnenos and Andronikos I Komnenos. She was a daughter of Louis VII of France and Adèle of Champagne.
Born in 1171; died after 1240; daughter of Louis VII (1120–1180), king of France (r. 1137–1180), and Adele of Champagne (1145–1206); sister of Philip II Augustus, king of France (r. 1180–1223); became childbride of Alexius II Comnenus (1167–1183) Byzantine emperor (r. 1180–1183), on Easter 1179 (Alexius was killed in 1183); married ...
20 de ene. de 2023 · 1220 (48-49) Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, Ile-de-France, France. Immediate Family: Daughter of Louis VII the Young, king of France and Adèle de Champagne, reine de France. Wife of Andronikos I, Byzantine Emperor and Theodore Branas, byzantine general. Fiancée of Alexios II Komnenos, byzantine emperor.
Agnes received the barons of the Fourth Crusade as befitted a Byzantine empress -- with bad grace, according to Robert, and would talk only through an interpreter, pretending that she knew no French. She was now over thirty years of age and had, after all, spent most of her life in the Byzantine capital and at the Byzantine court.
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On September 24, 1180, Manuel died and Alexios succeeded him as Emperor. He was too young to rule unaided; his mother, Maria of Antioch, exercised more influence in affairs of state than Alexios or Anna. In 1183 Maria of Antioch was displaced by a new power behind the throne, Andronikos I Komnenos. Andronikos was a first cousin of Manuel and was kn...
Anna survived Andronikos' fall and is next heard of in 1193, when she is said by a Western chronicler to have become the lover of Theodore Branas, a military leader who fought on the Empire's northern frontier. They did not at first marry. After the fall of Constantinople in 1204, Agnes derived respect from the Latin barons due to her being a forme...
Name: Agnès (Anna) //Name: Emma Agnes /Capet/The crusader Robert of Clari, writing only 25 years after the event, is clear about the rich entourage that accompanied Agnes to Constantinople: then the king arrayed his sister very richly and sent her with the messengers to Constantinople, and many of his people with her ... When they were come, the emperor did very great honor to the damsel and ...
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The Agency and Authority of Agnes of France and Margaret of Hungary in the Aftermath of the Fall of Constantinople (1204-1206) Question Journal Ewan Short. 2019, Question. This paper recovers the agency and authority of two former Byzantine empresses after the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
Agnes of France, renamed Anna (1171 – 1220/after 1240), was Byzantine Empress by marriage to Alexios II Komnenos and Andronikos I Komnenos. She was a daughter of Louis VII of France and Adèle of Champagne. Agnes of France. Agnes/Anna depicted on an 1179 illuminated manuscript.
