Irene of Hungary
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Irene of Hungary was the Byzantine empress by marriage to John II Komnenos. The Byzantine Empire was at its height during this period, and her husband, John II, has been regarded as the greatest of th
Mosaic portrait of Empress Irene on the Comnenos mosaic in the Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (now Istanbul), (c. 1118)
Komnenos mosaic at Hagia Sophia: Mary the Virgin in the center, Emperor John II Komnenos on the left, and Empress Irene on the right (c. 1118)
Monastery of Christ Pantokrator (now Zeyrek Mosque, Istanbul)
Ladislaus I of Hungary
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Ladislaus I, also known as Saint Ladislas, was King of Hungary from 1077 and King of Croatia from 1091. He was the second son of King Béla I of Hungary and Richeza of Poland. After Béla's death in 106
Irene of Hungary
…customs of the era, she took monastic vows, became a monastic (nun), taking on the monastic name Xene. Piroska was born in 1088, the daughter of King Ladislaus I of Hungary and Adelaide of Rheinfelden. She was orphaned at an early age, while still a child: her mother died in 1090, and her father died on 29 July 1095. King…
Herm of Saint Ladislaus containing his skull, held in the Cathedral Basilica of Győr
Saint Ladislaus's reliquary of the late 19th-century (in the Cathedral-Basilica of Oradea, Romania)
After the Battle of Kerlés in 1068, Saint Ladislaus is fighting a duel with a Cuman warrior who kidnapped a girl (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
Angels crowning King Saint Ladislaus (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)