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Theodora KomnenaTheodora Komnena, b. Byzantium (Istanbul, Turkey; ?), around 1134, d. Vienna, 1183, (tomb in the "Schottenkirche" church), daughter of the emperor´s lieutenant Andronikos (directly below the emperor in the hierarchy) and niece of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos. Was the second wife of the Austrian Babenberg Margrave and Duke Heinrich II, whom she married 1148; a wedding poem is still preserved in a manuscript of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. Literature: K. J. Heilig, Ostrom und das Dt. Reich um die Mitte des 12. Jh., in: T. Mayer et al., Kaisertum und Herzogsgewalt im Zeitalter Friedrichs I., 1944 (Neudruck 1958); Die Babenberger in Ö., exhibition catalogue, Lilienfeld 1976.
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