Byzantine emperor from 1185 to 1195 and 1203 to 1204
Isaac II Angelos
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans
Portrait of Isaac II (from a 15th-century codex containing a copy of the Extracts of History by Joannes Zonaras)
Byzantine emperor
Reign
12 September 1185 – 8 April 1195
Predecessor
Andronikos I Komnenos
Successor
Alexios III Angelos
Reign
19 July 1203 – 27 January 1204
Coronation
1 August 1203[1]
Successor
Alexios V Doukas
Co-Emperor
Alexios IV Angelos
Born
September 1156
Died
January 1204 (aged 47) Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey)
Spouse
Eirene Komnena or Palaiologina (ended 1185)
Margaret of Hungary
(m. 1185–1204)
Issue
Anna-Euphrosyne
Irene Angelina
Alexios IV Angelos
John Angelos
Names
Isaac Angelos Ισαάκιος Άγγελος
Dynasty
Angelos
Father
Andronikos Doukas Angelos
Mother
Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa
Religion
Greek Orthodox
Isaac II Angelos or Angelus (Greek: Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός Ἄγγελος, translit. Isaákios Komnēnós Ángelos; September 1156 – January 1204) was Byzantine Emperor from 1185 to 1195, and co-Emperor with his son Alexios IV Angelos from 1203 to 1204. In a 1185 revolt against the Emperor Andronikos Komnenos, Isaac seized power and rose to the Byzantine throne, establishing the Angelos family as the new imperial dynasty.
His father Andronikos Doukas Angelos was a military leader in Asia Minor (c. 1122 – aft. 1185) who married Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa (c. 1125 – aft. 1195). Andronikos Doukas Angelos was the son of Constantine Angelos and Theodora Komnene (b. 15 January 1096/1097), the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. Thus Isaac was a member of the extended imperial clan of the Komnenoi.
^Geoffrey of Villehardouin, De la Conquête de Constantinople s.48
IsaacIIAngelos or Angelus (Greek: Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός Ἄγγελος, translit. Isaákios Komnēnós Ángelos; September 1156 – January 1204) was Byzantine Emperor...
throne after deposing, blinding and imprisoning his younger brother IsaacIIAngelos. The most significant event of his reign was the attack of the Fourth...
father of emperors IsaacIIAngelos and Alexios III Angelos. Andronikos was born around 1133, the third son of Constantine Angelos and Theodora Komnene...
Alexios IV Angelos (Greek: Ἀλέξιος Ἄγγελος, romanized: Aléxios Ángelos; c. 1182 – February 1204), Latinized as Alexius IV Angelus, was Byzantine Emperor...
the deposed IsaacIIAngelos and his son Alexios IV Angelos were both in prison following the coup of Alexius III Angelos. However, Isaac was not destined...
Komnenos. In 1185, following a revolt against Andronikos I Komnenos, IsaacIIAngelos rose to the throne establishing the Angeloi as the new imperial family...
Doukas Angelos (a cousin of the ruling Komnenos dynasty) and mother of the two future Byzantine emperors from the Angelos family: IsaacIIAngelos and Alexios...
Doukas, uncle of IsaacII and Angelos III. John's descendants, who often preferred to use the name 'Komnenos Doukas' rather than 'Angelos', ruled Epirus...
origin. In 1185, Theodor and Asen approached the Byzantine Emperor IsaacIIAngelos in Thrace, demanding an estate in the Balkan Mountains. After the Emperor...
throne of IsaacIIAngelos (r. 1185–1195, 1203–1204), the brother and predecessor of Alexios III. IsaacII, along with his son Alexios IV Angelos, were restored...
reign of Hungarian kings Andrew II and Béla IV, who were his maternal relatives. John Angelos was the son of IsaacIIAngelos, the Byzantine Emperor from...
Byzantine prince Alexios Angelos to divert their main force to Constantinople and restore his deposed father IsaacIIAngelos as emperor, who would then...
Hagiochristophorites, his lieutenant, moved to arrest IsaacAngelos, whose loyalty was suspect. Angelos killed Hagiochristophorites and took refuge in the...
descendant of Alexios I Komnenos and a cousin of emperors IsaacIIAngelos and Alexios III Angelos. He began his public career in 1190, as a hostage to the...
uncertain; 2. (1197/1200): Anna-Euphrosine, a relative of Emperor IsaacIIAngelos King Daniel Romanovich of Galicia (1201/1202–1264) King Vasylko Romanovich...
Hungarian; 1175 – after 1223) was a Byzantine Empress by marriage to IsaacIIAngelos and Queen of Thessalonica by marriage to Boniface of Montferrat. She...
February 1186 to February 1189. He was appointed by the Byzantine emperor IsaacIIAngelos. Grumel 1958, p. 436. Grumel, Venance (1943). "La chronologie des patriarches...
(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey), the second daughter of Byzantine emperor IsaacIIAngelos and his first wife, possibly an unknown Palaiologina with a non-Greek...
of Swabia, King of Germany, and Irene Angelina, daughter of Emperor IsaacIIAngelos of the Byzantine Empire. Elisabeth's father was murdered on 21 June...
Constantine Doukas (probably the son of John Angelos Doukas, and thus a first cousin to IsaacIIAngelos and Alexios III). Both presented their case to...
half-sister Maria Komnene, the caesar John, his loyal generals Andronikos Doukas Angelos, Andronikos Kontostephanos and John Komnenos Vatatzes,: 64 while Empress...
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