The Batatzes family
One Basileios Batatzes, Duke of Thrace, +1193; m.a dau.of Isaakios Angelos; they had issue:
- A1. Isaakios Dukas Batatzes, +1261; m.NN
- B1. Ioannes Batatzes, *1215; m.Eudokia Angelina
- B2. a daughter; m.Konstantinos Strategopulos
- A2. a son; m.NN
- B1. a daughter; m.Alexios Raul (+1258)
- A3. IÓANNÉS III Dukas Batatzes, Emperor of Byzantium in Nicaea (1222-55), *Didymoteiche 1192, +Nymphainon 3.11.1254; 1m: ca 1212 Eirene Laskarina (+1239); 2m: 1244 Costanza von Hohenstaufen, dau.of Emperor Friedrich II
- B1. THÉODOROS II Dukas Laskaris, Vice-regent of Asia Minor 1238, co-Emperor 1241, Emperor of Byzantium in Nicaea (30.10.1254-58) -cr 1255, a philosopher and theologian, *1222, +1258; m.spring 1235 Elena of Bulgaria (*1224, +ca 1254)
- C1. IÓANNÉS IV Dukas Laskaris, Emperor of Byzantium (1258-61), 1261 blinded and imprisoned by Emp Michael VIII, *1250, +1305
- C2. Eirene, +1269/70; m.1258 Konstantin Zich Asen, Tsar of Bulgaria (+1277)
- C3. Maria Dukaina Laskarina, +1258; m.1256 Nikephoros I Angelos, Despot of Epirus (*1240 +1296)
- C4. Theodora, +after 1264; 1m: after 1258 Matthieu de Mons, Baron of Velligosti in Morea; 2m: 1273 Jakow Sweitislaw, Tsar of part of Bulgaria (+1273)
- C5. Eudokia, *1254; 1m: 1262 Pietro I, Cte di Ventimiglia, sn de Tende (+1278); 2m: 1281 Arnaud Roger de Comminges, Cde de Pailhars
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