Theodore Branas or Vranas (Greek: Θεόδωρος Βρανᾶς, Theodōros Branas), sometimes called Theodore Komnenos Branas, was a general under the Byzantine Empire...

enemy. Alexios Branas was a notable Greek aristocrat, who was doubly linked to the imperial Komnenos family. He was the son of Michael Branas and of Maria...

when she is said by a Western chronicler to have become the lover of Theodore Branas, a military leader who fought on the Empire's northern frontier. They...

Comnenus (1180–1183), 2) Andronicus I Comnenus (1183–1185), then 3) Theodore Branas (1204) Louis is a character in Jean Anouilh's 1959 play Becket. In...

and the surrounding area to the Byzantine aristocrat Theodore Branas as a hereditary fief. Theodore Komnenos, Despot of Epirus, took possession of it in...

early 1206 Didymoteicho and Adrianople submitted to the Greek lord Theodore Branas, who was in the Latin Emperor's service. Kalojan besieged Didymoteicho...

(France) and his wife Agnes de Dampierre. Alongside his father-in-law Theodore Branas and Geoffroy de Merry, Narjot de Toucy formed part of the council that...

century). Alexios Branas, son of Michael, who decisively defeated the Normans at the Battle of Demetritzes, near Serres, in 1185. Theodore Branas son of Alexios...

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Henry offering their submission. Henry accepted the offer and assisted Theodore Branas in taking possession of the two towns. Kaloyan attacked Didymoteicho...

indicates being a member of the Branas family which produced military leaders, like Alexios Branas and Theodore Branas, but whose genealogy is poorly recorded...

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of Narjot of Toucy and his first wife. His mother was a daughter of Theodore Branas and Agnes of France. Baldwin was absent for several years, first staying...

indicates being a member of the Branas family which produced military leaders like Alexios Branas and Theodore Branas, but whose genealogy is poorly recorded...

who desert his camp. The Byzantine aristocrats, Alexios Aspietes and Theodore Branas, expel the Latins from Philippopolis, but they deny to cede it to Kaloyan...

made Theodore Branas (called Li Vernas by Geoffroi de Villehardouin) lord of Aprus. In 1206, Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria destroyed the city, but Branas rebuilt...

Kaloyan's allies, sought the aid of Henry and surrendered Adrianople to Theodore Branas, a Byzantine general in Latin service. The Latins were then able to...

Latin Empire of Constantinople, and a daughter of the Byzantine lord Theodore Branas and Agnes of France, Byzantine empress-dowager and a daughter of Louis...

against the advancing forces of Kaloyan of Bulgaria, who took the town. Theodore Branas (1205–1206) – the Lord of Adrianople, he established a breakaway state...

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Irene was the granddaughter of Byzantine General Theodore Branas and Agnes of France, though the Branas genealogy is poorly recorded. Irene was married...

of Champagne; wife of Alexios II Komnenos, Andronikos I Komnenos, Theodore Branas Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (c. 1260–1327), daughter of Louis...

as an exile in Byzantium, under the name Iōannēs Komnēnos Doukas Angelos Branas Palaiologos, and shortly before his death he became a monk under the name...

co-emperor in 1092. She stopped being empress for a few months in 1183. Theodore II was proclaimed co-emperor in 1235, but was never crowned. Some Palaiologan...

inhabitants of Demotika and Adrianople submitted to the Greek lord Theodore Branas, who was in the Latin Emperor's service. The initial Bulgarian sieges...

Theodore Branas as Lord of Adrianople; as the lordship was hereditary it is assumed that Baldwin married an otherwise unattested daughter of Branas....

Byzantine city sacked by the Kingdom of Sicily. Battle of Demetritzes Alexios Branas decisively defeats Norman invasion army. Battle of Yashima Taira forces...

1187: Revolt of Alexios Branas against Isaac II Angelos. 1188–1189: Revolt and establishment of a breakaway regime by Theodore Mangaphas at Philadelphia...

 1136–after 1186), married Nikephoros Synadenos, and then the general Alexios Branas. Theodora Komnene (c. 1137–after 1185), married the general and diplomat...

Isaac succeeded in retrieving imperial fortunes in the Balkans, after Branas' victory against the Normans at the Battle of Demetritzes in 1185 and the...