Irene Komnene Kantakouzene Palaiologina Asenina
- Title
- Princess
Biography
Irene Komnene Kantakouzene Palaiologina Asenina was a daughter of the grand constable John Palaiologos Komnenos and a granddaughter of the sevastokrator Constantine Palaiologos — brother of Emperor Michael VIII.
Through her marriage to Michael Komnenos Asen she joined two branches of the wide Byzantine kinship of the Palaiologoi and the Asens. Her many family names reflect the interweaving of the most noble Byzantine houses, among which the Asen family took a lasting place in the fourteenth century.
Sources
- “Ирина е дъщеря на великия конетабъл Йоан Палеолог Комнин … внучка на Константин Палеолог (брат на император Михаил VIII Палеолог).”— Genealogy and Prosopography of the Asen Dynasty 1186–1460, p. 316