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Irene Laskarina

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successionEmpress consort of Nicaea
reign-typeTenure
titleAugusta
imageIrene Laskarina seal.png
captionSeal of Irene Laskarina
reign1222–1240
issueTheodore II Doukas Laskaris
houseLaskaris
fatherTheodore I Komnenos Laskaris
motherAnna Komnene Angelina
birth_datec. 1194-9
death_date1240
spouseAndronikos Palaiologos
John III Doukas Vatatzes

|reign-type=Tenure John III Doukas Vatatzes

Irene Laskarina (c. 1194-9 – 1240) () was Empress consort of Nicaea. She was a daughter of Theodore I Komnenos Laskaris, emperor of Nicaea and Anna Komnene Angelina. Her maternal grandparents were Alexios III Angelos and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera. Her sister, Maria Laskarina, married Béla IV of Hungary.

In 1204, during Irene Laskarina's childhood, the city of Constantinople fell to a Crusader army during the Sack of Constantinople. Much of the nobility, including Irene's family, fled, and re-established a capitol in Nicaea; this became the Nicaean empire.

Irene first married the general Andronikos Palaiologos, and after his death became the wife of Theodore's designated successor, the future John III Doukas Vatatzes They had a son, the future Theodore II Doukas Laskaris. After the latter's birth, she fell from a horse and was so badly injured that she was unable to have any more children. She retired to a convent, taking the monastic name Eugenia, and died there in summer of 1240, some fourteen years before her husband.

Irene is praised by historians for her modesty and prudence and is said to have brought about by her example a considerable improvement in the morals of her nation.

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