Helena Angelina Doukaina

Helena Angelina Doukaina
Queen consort of Sicily
Tenure2 June 1259 – 26 February 1266
Bornc. 1242
Died1271 (aged 28–29)
SpouseManfred of Sicily
IssueBeatrice, Marchioness of Saluzzo
Frederick of Sicily
Henry of Sicily
Anselm/Enzio of Sicily
HouseKomnenodoukai
FatherMichael II Komnenos Doukas
MotherTheodora Petraliphaina

Helena Angelina Doukaina (c. 1242 – 1271) was Queen of Sicily as the second wife of King Manfred. Queen Helena was the daughter of Michael II Komnenos Doukas, Despot of Epirus, and Theodora Petraliphaina. Her marriage was an expression of the alliance of her father and the ruler of Sicily against the growing power of the Empire of Nicaea.[1]

  1. ^ Donald M. Nicol, The last centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453, second edition (Cambridge: University Press, 1993), p. 28

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