Constantine Angelos

1085 – 1166 · Generation XXIX · Angelos

Constantine (AD 1085 – 1166). Married Theodora around AD 1122. Progenitor of the Angelos dynasty; married Theodora Komnene. He came from an obscure aristocratic family of Philadelphia, and was said to be brave and exceptionally handsome — enough to win Theodora, fourth daughter of Alexios I, whose mother, Empress Irene, seems to have disapproved of the match. The marriage raised him to the lofty rank of sebastohypertatos. Under his nephew Manuel I he joined the Dalmatian campaign of 1149 and raided the Nishava valley. Given command of the fleet in 1154, he ignored orders to wait at Monemvasia and, trusting his astrologers, attacked a much larger Sicilian fleet; defeated and captured, he was held in Palermo until peace came in 1158. In 1166 he was charged with strengthening Zemun, Belgrade and Niš against Hungary. Of his seven children, his son Andronikos fathered two emperors, and his descendants also ruled Epirus and Thessalonica.

Place in the family

• Constantine Angelos married Theodora Komnene, a daughter of Alexios I Komnenos.
• The archive records 33 of his descendants, across 12 generations.

One of 8 people of Angelos (from 1185) in this archive. The house on the throne when the Fourth Crusade took the city in 1204.

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Partners

• Married Theodora Komnene (1096 – ?) in 1122 — 2 children together

Children

• Andronikos Angelos Doukas (1133 – 1185)
• John Doukas (1126 – 1200)

Life

• 1085 — Born
• 1122 — Married Theodora
• 1166 — Died