Eirene Pegonitissa

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 8 September, between 1060 and 1065.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley. Polemis states that Eirene died between 1060 and 1066.

Relationships

(possible) Father: Leon Pegonites or Niketas Pegonites.

This relationship is given by the PBW, citing Psellos Eirene 159. Polemis gives Niketas Pegonites, stating that the name and family were established in a 1937 article by H. Grégoire.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Ioannes Doukas. Married about 1045.

This relationship is given by Polemis and by the PBW, citing Psellos Eirene 162

.

Children:

Andronikos married Maria of Bulgaria.

Konstantinos.

References

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

M. Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World (2011) “Eirene Pegonitissa, wife of Ioannes the kaisar” http://db.pbw.kcl.ac.uk/pbw2011/entity/person/159494 [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.