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Emperor Alexios Komnenos - Mosaic from the Hagia Sophia

The Byzantine Family of Komnenos

Alexius I Comnenus was the Byzantine emperor (from 1081to 1118) at the time of the First Crusade, who founded the Comnenian dynasty and partially restored the strength of the empire after its defeats by the Normans and Turks in the 11th century. The third son of John Comnenus and a nephew of Isaac I (emperor from 1057 to 1059), Alexius came of a distinguished Byzantine landed family and was one of the military magnates who had long urged more effective defense measures, particularly against the Turks' encroaching on Byzantine provinces in eastern and central Anatolia. From 1068 to 1081 he gave able military service during the short reigns of Romanus IV, Michael VII, and Nicephorus III. Then, with the support of his brother Isaac and his mother, the formidable Anna Dalassena, and with that of the powerful Ducas family, to which his wife, Irene, belonged, he seized the Byzantine throne from Nicephorus III. Alexius was crowned on April 4, 1081. ..... continued

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St. Eirene (Szent Piroska) of Hungary - Mosaic from the Hagia Sophia

  • A1 = Isaak Komnenos, b:925;
    • B1 = Manuel Erotikus Komnenos, lvd:955/1025;
      • C1 = Ioannes I, lvd:1015/1057, m. Anna Dalassena;
        • D1 = Theodora Komnene, b:1053, m. Konstantinos Diogenes;
        • D2 ~ Maria Komnene, b:1045, m. Michale Taronites;  <==  Taronites
        • D3 = Emperor Alexios I of Byzantium, lvd:1048/1118, m. Irene Dukaina;
          • E1 = Theodora Komnene, lvd:1096/1166, m. Konstantinos Angelos;  <==  Angelos family
          • E2 .. Anna Komnene, author of "Alexiad", lvd:1083/1153;
          • E3 = Ioannes II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium, lvd:1087/1143, m. Piroska (St. Eirene) of Hungary;  ==>  House of Árpád
            • F1 = Andronikos Komnenos, lvd:1108/1142, m. Eirene Aineidasa;
              • G1 = Eudoxia Komnena, m. Guillaume VIII de Montpellier;
                • H1 = Marie, Dame de Montpellier, d:1204, m. King Pedro II;  <==  House of Aragon
              • G2 ~ Ioannes Komnenos, Duke of Cyprus, lvd:1128/1176, m. Maria Taronitissa;  ==>  Taronites
                • H1 ~ Maria Komnenos, b:1154, m. Amaury I, King of Jerusalem;  <==  Anjou dynasty

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