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Irene Angela (Irini Maria Angelina) of Byzantium, Princess of the East, Q u e e n o f S icily (1181 - 1208) was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor I s a a c I I A ngelos by his first wife Herina Tornikaina. Her paternal grand p a r e n ts were Andronikos Dukas Angelos and Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa. Ir e n e A n g elina with her second husband Philip of Swabia In 1193 she marri e d R o g e r III of Sicily, but he died on 24 December 1193. Irene was capt u r e d i n t he German invasion of Sicily on 29 December 1194 and was marri e d o n 2 5 M a y 1197 to Philip of Swabia. In Germany, she was renamed Mari a . H e r f a ther, who had been deposed in 1195, urged her to get Philip's s u p p o r t for his reinstatement; her brother, Alexius, subsequently spent s o m e t i m e at Philip's court during the preparations for the Fourth Crusa d e . S h e t hus had an early influence on the eventual diversion of the Cr u s a d e t o Constantinople in 1204. She was described by Walther von der V o g e l w eide as "the rose without a thorn, the dove without guile".
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1184 - 1208 (24 years)
