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Irene Kantakouzene
Irene Kantakouzene ((ギリシア語:Ειρήνη Καντακουζηνή), (:iriˈni kantakusini'); 1400–May 3, 1457), known simply as Despotess Jerina (), was the wife of Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković. In Serbian folk legends, she is the founder of many fortresses in Serbia.
== Life ==
Although the Smederevo Fortress was the work of Đurađ Branković (completed in 1430), Irene apparently had a role in its construction; one of its towers is known as "Irene's Tower" (Jerinina Kula), and she is blamed for causing hardship on the inhabitants of the countryside by levying taxes and recruiting forced labor for building the fortress.〔Donald M. Nicol, ''The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus) ca. 1100-1460: a Genealogical and Prosopographical Study'' (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1968), p. 185〕 The fortress traded hands between the Serbians and the Ottomans over the following years until it fell on 20 June 1459, more than two years after Branković, and then Irene, had died.〔Nicol, ''Byzantine Family'', p. 186〕
Nicols describes the circumstances of Irene's death as "melancholy". According to the account of historian Kritoboulos, upon the death of Đurađ Branković his youngest son Lazar became Despot under her regency. However Lazar swiftly deprived her of all authority and treated her so badly that she tried to escape to the court of Sultan Mehmet II with her stepdaughter Mara and her blind son Gregory. Lazar pursued them, and captured Irene although Mara and Gregory successfully escaped. Irene soon became ill and died on the night of 2–3 May at Rudnik, where she was buried. Theodore Spandounes, a 16th-century historian records the accusation that Lazar poisoned her.〔
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