Andronikos Doukas

Domestic of the schools

Events

Date of Birth: before 1045.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Polemis.

Date of Death: 14 October 1077.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Polemis.

Relationships

Father: Ioannes Doukas, kaisar.

This relationship is given by Polemis, by Stanković, by Kazhdan, and by the PBW, citing Glyskas 611.17; Skylitzes Continuatus 149.9; Attaleiates: History 168.15-16/ 125.4-5; Zonaras 18.14.12; Psellos: Chronographia 18.6, 28.6, 36.3; Psellos Letters (K - D) 232, 280.4; Manasses, Chronicle 6424; Brennios 115.9, 133.7, 209.12; and Zonaras 18.15.13.

Mother: Eirene Pegonitissa.

This relationship is given by Polemis, by Kazhdan and by the PBW, citing Psellos Eirene 168-169.

Spouse: Maria of Bulgaria.

This relationship is given by Polemis, by Kazhdan and by the PBW, citing Bryennios 219.16-16; Pantokrator Typikon 219.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Mikhael (1061 - 9 January, 1110 or before).

Ioannes (about 1064 - before 1136).

Stefanos.

Irene (1066 - 1023) married Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

Konstantinos.

Anna (about 1068 - before 1136) married Georgios Palaiologos.

Theodora (about 1070 - before 1110/18).

References

Cawley, Charles. “ANDRONIKOS Doukas” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Kazhdan, Alexander P. and Anthony Cutler, “Doukas” in the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 1991).

M. Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World (2011). “Andronikos Doukas, son of the kaisar Ioannes” http://db.pbw.kcl.ac.uk/pbw2011/entity/person/106267 [consulted 31 July 2014]

Polemis, Demetrios I. The Doukai: A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography. (University of London: The Athlone Press, 1968).

Stanković, Vlada. “Doukid Dynasty (1059-1081)”, 2008, Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Constantinople.