Family
The identity of Isaac II's first wife is unknown, but her name, Herina (i.e., Eirene), is found on the necrology of Speyer Cathedral, where their daughter Irene is interred. (However, it would have been extremely unusual for a mother and daughter to bear the same name, unless the mother's name was monastic.) Isaac's wife may have been a member of the Palaiologos family. A possible foreign origin is also given to her due to having the same name as her daughter. Their third child was born in 1182 or 1183 and she was dead or divorced by 1185, when Isaac remarried. Their children were:
- Euphrosyne Angelina, a nun.
- Irene Angelina, married first to Roger III of Sicily, and secondly to Philip of Swabia.
- Alexios IV Angelos.
By his second wife, Margaret of Hungary (who took the baptismal name "Maria"), Isaac II had two sons:
- John Angelos (b. ca. 1193 – d. 1259). He migrated to Hungary and ruled over Syrmia and Bacs (1227–42) as a vassal of king Béla IV of Hungary.
- Manuel Angelos (b. after 1195 – d. 1212)
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