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http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZANTIUM%2010571204.htm The ''Alexei ad'' records that Eirene, mother of Anna Komnene, was "kinswoman" of t he Doukas family and "legal wife of my [Anna Komnene's] father" but do es not name her parents [Alexeiad, Book 2, pp. 91-2]. This passage fol lows soon after the text which names Mikhael and Ioannes as grandson s of "the Cæsar Ioannes" and "Georgios Palaiologos the husband of the ir sister" [Alexeiad, Book 2, p. 90]. The omission of Eirene from thi s list of brothers and sister suggests that she was not the daughter o f Andronikos Doukas. In another passage, the ''Alexeiad'' records tha t Anna "on my mother's side [was] related to the Doukas" [Alexeiad, Bo ok 1, p. 53]. Any doubts about her parentage are resolved in a furthe r passage which records that, at the time of the Komnenoi rebellion i n 1081, the future Emperor Alexios left "his wife, fifteen years old a t the time… in the 'lower' palace with her sisters and mother and th e Cæsar, her grandfather on the paternal side", and in yet another pa ssage which explicitly states that she was "a daughter of Andronikos , the Cæsar's eldest son" [''Alexeiad'', Book 3, pp. 105 and 110]. Ni kephoros Bryennios records that "Alexium Comnenum" married "primogenit am… filiarum" of Andronikos [Nikephoros Bryennios Liber III, 6, p. 1 06]. The ''Alexeiad'' records that she was crowned empress "on the sev enth day after the public proclamation" of her husband's accession [Al exeiad, Book 3, p. 109]. She supported her daughter's attempt to hav e the latter's husband Nikephoros Briennios succeed her husband as emp eror, but retired to a convent after her husband died. m (betrothed be fore Oct 1077, [1078]) as his second wife, ALEXIOS Komnenos, son of IO ANNES Komnenos, kuropalates and domestikos & his wife Anna Dalassena ( [1048/57]-15 Aug 1118). He succeeded in 1081 as Emperor ALEXIOS I.