!!!Theodora Komnena

b. Byzantium (Istanbul, Turkey; ?), around 1134, 
d. Vienna, 1183, (tomb in the "Schottenkirche" church), daughter of 
the emperor´s lieutenant Andronikos (directly below the emperor 
in the hierarchy) and niece of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I 
Komnenos. Was the second wife of the Austrian Babenberg Margrave and 
Duke  Heinrich II, whom she married 1148; a wedding poem is still 
preserved in a manuscript of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.

!Literature
K. J. Heilig, Ostrom und das Dt. Reich um die Mitte 
des 12. Jh., in: T. Mayer et al., Kaisertum und Herzogsgewalt im 
Zeitalter Friedrichs I., 1944 (Neudruck 1958); Die Babenberger in 
Oe., exhibition catalogue, Lilienfeld 1976.



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