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A Profile of Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus
Alexius Comnenus, also known as Alexios Komnenos, is perhaps best known for seizing the throne from Nicephorus III and founding the Comnenus dynasty. As emperor, Alexius stabilized the government of the empire. He was also Emperor during the First Crusade. Alexius is the subject of a biography by his learned daughter, Anna Comnena.
Occupations:
Emperor
Crusade Witness
Military Leader
Places of Residence and Influence:
Byzantium (Eastern Rome)
Important Dates:
Born:1048
Crowned: April 4, 1081
Died:Aug. 15, 1118
About Alexius Comnenus
Alexius was the third son of John Comnenus and a nephew of Emperor Isaac I. From 1068 to 1081, during the reigns of Romanus IV, Michael VII, and Nicephorus III, he served in the military; then, with the help of his brother Isaac, his mother Anna Dalassena, and his powerful in-laws the Ducas family, he seized the throne from Nicephorus III.
For more than half a century the empire had suffered from ineffective or short-lived leaders. Alexius was able to drive the Italian Normans from western Greece, defeat Turkic nomads who'd been invading the Balkans, and halt the encroachment of the Seljuq Turks. He also negotiated agreements with Sulayman ibn Qutalmïsh of Konya
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Alexios Komnenos (co-emperor)
Byzantine co-emperor from 1119 to 1142
For other people with the same name, see Alexios Komnenos (disambiguation).
Alexios Komnenos, latinised as Alexius Comnenus (Greek: Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός; October 1106 – summer 1142), and sometimes called Alexios the Younger,[1] was the eldest son of the Byzantine emperorJohn II Komnenos and his wife Eirene of Hungary. He was crowned co-emperor in 1119, at 13 of age, but predeceased his father in 1142. He was an elder brother of the emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and had a twin sister, Maria Komnene (plus other siblings).
Life
[edit]Alexios was born at Balabista (today Sidirokastro) in Macedonia (Greece).[3] His exact birthday is not recorded, but it was shortly before the feast of Demetrius of Thessaloniki on 26 October 1106. He was crowned co-emperor by his father in 1119, between 12 July and 7 October (historians often date his coronation to 1122, but this is a mistake). He died of a sudden disease in the summer 1142, only one year before his father's death as the result of a hunting accident. The reign of John II is less well chronicled than those of his father, Alexios I, or successor, Manuel I, and coverage of the life of his son Alexios is very sparse.
A panegyrical poem
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Alexios I Komnenos
Byzantine emperor expend 1081 yearning 1118
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