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Persoonlijke gegevens Anna DALASSENE 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 1025 in Trabzon, Turkey.Bronnen 1, 2

  Let op: Leeftijd bij trouwen (??-??-1040) lag beneden de 16 jaar (15).

• Zij is overleden in het jaar 1105, zij was toen 80 jaar oud.Bronnen 1, 2
• Een kind van Alexios CHARON en Adriana DALASSENE

Gezin van Anna DALASSENE

Zij is getrouwd met Johan KOMNENOS.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1040, zij was toen 15 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. ALEXIOS I KOMNENOS  1048-1118 

Notities over Anna DALASSENE

Anna Dalassene (Greek: Ἄννα Δαλασσηνή, 1025-1105) was an important Byzantine noblewoman who played a significant role in the rise of the Komnenoi to power in the eleventh century. As Augusta, a title bestowed upon her rather than his empress-consort by her son, Alexios I Komnenos, she guided the empire during his many absences for long military campaigns against Turkish and other incursions into the Byzantine empire. As empress-mother, she exerted more influence and power than the empress-consort, Irene Doukaina, whom she hated because of past intrigues with the Doukas family.

Anna was the daughter of Alexios Charon, the imperial lieutenant in Italy, and Adriana Dalassene. Her mother's family, the Dalassenoi, came from Dalasa on the river Euphrates. Her retention of her mother's family name throughout her life, even after she had married, is an indication that her mother's family was more prestigious (at least at the time) than that of the Komnenoi. Contrary to Byzantine court protocol and expectancies and similar to her predecessor, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, Anna was to be a new model of a powerful family matriarch.

In 1044, Anna was married to John Komnenos, whose brother Isaac was chosen by a faction of rebel Byzantine generals to succeed the very old and inept Michael VI Stratiotikos. As a result, John was granted the titles of kouropalates and domestikos ton scholon of the West (commander of the western armies). Anna's equivalent of these titles, which appeared on seals, were kouropalatissa and domestikissa. In this regard, she was a high-ranking personage at court, second only to the empress and her daughter. Her eldest child, Manuel, was born in 1045. However, her ambition did not end with bearing eight children: Manuel, Maria, Isaac, Eudokia, Theodora, Alexios, Adrianos and Nikephoros.

Unfortunately for Anna, Isaac became very ill and was persuaded by the patriarchs Michael Keroularios and Constantine Leichoudes to abdicate the throne in 1059. Isaac wanted to pass the throne to John, but he would not accept it and Constantine X Doukas was chosen as successor. According to the family historian, Nikephoros Bryennios, Anna was moved to "tears and groans" to make John change his mind but he did not see any advantage to the family, and Anna was forced to accept the consequences. As a historical aside, her granddaughter, Anna Komnene, was to meet the same fate when she was unsuccessful in persuading her husband, the same Nikephoros Bryennios, to usurp the throne from her own brother, John II Komnenos, after the death of Alexios I in 1118.
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