Background
Anna was born in Trebizond on 6 April 1357, the day before Good Friday, the eldest daughter and child of Emperor Alexios III of Trebizond and Theodora Kantakouzene.
Anna was born in Trebizond on 6 April 1357, the day before Good Friday, the eldest daughter and child of Emperor Alexios III of Trebizond and Theodora Kantakouzene.
Anna had also at least one illegitimate half-brother, Andronikos, by her father"s liaison with an unnamed mistress. In April 1362, a delegation that included megas logothetes George, the Scholaris, the Sebastos and the historian Michael Panaretos went to Constantinople, to negotiate her betrothal to Andronikos Palaiologos who would later rule as Byzantine Emperor Andronikos IV.
In June 1367, at the age of 10 years and two months, she became the second wife of King Bagrat V of Georgia, also known as Bagrat the Great. Anna was accompanied to Georgia by her father and formidable paternal grandmother, Irene of Trebizond.
At an unknown date, sometime after 1369, Anna gave birth to a son, Constantine (died 1411/1412).
He would later reign as King Constantine I of Georgia, succeeding his childless half-brother, King George VII in 1407. According to Cyril Toumanoff, Anna had two other children by Bagrat: Olympias and David.
Anna"s husband died in 1393. She died sometime after 1406.
She was a member of the powerful Byzantine Greek Komnenos dynasty which was founded by Isaac I Komnenos in 1057.