Irene Komnene Laskarina Branaina


Irene Komnene Laskarina Branaina was a Byzantine noblewoman and wife of sebastokrator Constantine Palaiologos, half-brother of Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. She seems to have followed suit after her husband's retirement to a convent, and taken the monastic name of Maria. She probably died as a nun.

Marriage and family

Irene was the granddaughter of Byzantine General Theodore Branas and Agnes of France, though the Branas genealogy is poorly recorded.
Irene was married c. 1259/60 to Constantine Palaiologos, by whom he seems to have had five children"