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Alexios Komnenos ( Greek: Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός, romanized : Alexios Komnēnos; c. 1077 – after 1108) was a Byzantine aristocrat and nephew of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Promoted to the rank of sebastos, he served as doux of Dyrrhachium from 1106 until after 1108. During this time, he led the successful resistance to a siege of ...
Alexander was born in 1405 c. [1] as the second son of Alexios IV Megas Komnenos, who ruled the Empire of Trebizond from 1417 to 1429. He had two brothers; the elder John and the younger David, and at least three sisters, one of whom was Maria, who married the Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaiologos ( r. 1425–1448). [2]
John Komnenos (Latinized as Comnenus ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Greek: Ἰωάννης Κομνηνὸς ὁ παχύς, romanized : Ioannis Komninos o pahys ), was a Byzantine noble who attempted to usurp the imperial throne from Alexios III Angelos in a short-lived coup in Constantinople on 31 July 1201 (or 1200). [1] The coup drew on ...
Anna Megale Komnene ( Greek: Άννα Μεγάλη Κομνηνή, romanized : Anna Megalē Komnēnē; Georgian: ანა კომნენა; 6 April 1357 - after 30 November 1406) was a Trapezuntine Queen consort of Georgia as the second wife of King Bagrat V. She was the mother of his youngest son, Constantine I of Georgia, who would in ...
Theodora Komnene, Princess of Antioch. ( fl. 1140) was a grandniece of Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, a possible daughter of John Komnenos and of Maria Taronitissa, and the second wife of Bohemond III, prince of Antioch. [1] [2] She was the mother of : Her granduncle Manuel I Komnenos died in 1180. Therefore, Bohemond believed that the ...
List of Trapezuntine emperors. Alexios III Megas Komnenos ( r. 1349–1390), the longest-reigning Trapezuntine emperor, and his wife Theodora Kantakouzene. The Trapezuntine emperors were the rulers of the Empire of Trebizond, one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire founded after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, until its fall to the ...
Alexios V Doukas ( Greek: Ἀλέξιος Δούκας; died December 1204), Latinized as Alexius V Ducas, was Byzantine emperor from February to April 1204, just prior to the sack of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade. His family name was Doukas, but he was also known by the nickname Mourtzouphlos or Murtzuphlus ...
