Anna Palaiologina (died 1320; el, Ἅννα Παλαιολογίνα) was a

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

princess and queen-consort ('' basilissa'') of the Despotate of Epirus. She was a daughter of the Byzantine co-emperor

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and his wife, Rita of Armenia. Already in 1304, her hand was sought by the Epirote regent,

Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene ( el, Άννα Καντακουζηνή) (died after 1313) was the niece of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, second wife of Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas of Epirus and regent of Epirus upon his death arou ...

, for her son Thomas I Komnenos Doukas; the marriage eventually took place in ca. 1307. When Thomas was murdered by his nephew, Nicholas Orsini, in 1318, the latter took Anna as his wife. She died in 1320.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Palaiologina, Anna 13th-century births 1320 deaths Consorts of Epirus

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