A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

COMNENUS.

COMNENUS. 821

1. Joannes, 2. Alexis, 3. Constantine, 4. Adrian, 5. Daughter, was 6. Other children, viz.
Duke of Duke of Sebastus, Duke Sebastus, destined to Nicephorus, Manuel,
Dyrra- Dyrra- of Berrhooa, took orders; marry Gre- Stephanus, Joannes,
chium chium Magnus Drun- died as arch- gorius Gabra, Isaac, and Paul,
before after garius (?); alive bishop of Duke of Tre- whose parentage is
1106; 1106. in 1144 (?). Bulgaria. bizond. not well established.
treacherously
seized Hugo, Count of Vermandois, third son of king Henry I. of France, one of the chiefs of the
first crusade; Praefectus Sacri Cubiculi under the emperor Calo-Joannes; was destined to marry a
relative of Henry III., emperor of Germany; death unknown.
From above. II. ALEXIS I., Emperor [ALEXIS I.],
born probably in 1048; began to reign in 1081; died in 1118; married 1. a daughter of Argyrus, of the
noble family of the Argyri; 2. Irene, daughter of Andronicus Ducas, the brother of Constantine X. Ducas.
I

1. Calo-Joannes (Jo- 2. Androannes II.), Emperor nicus
[CALo-JOANNE]; Sebastoborn in 1088; ob- crator;
tained the throne in was
1118; died in1143; married;
married Irene, dau. issue unof Wladislaus II., known.
the Saint, king of
Hungary.

3. Isaac Se- 4. Anna
bastocrator, [ANNA
father of An- COMNEdronicus I., NA], born
founderofthe in 1083;
branch of the died after
Comneni of 1137;
Trebizond. marr. NiSee below, V. cephorus
Bryennius

5. Maria, born 6. Eudoxia, 7. Theodoin 1085; mar- married ra, marr.
ried Gregorius Constan- ConstanGabra, duke of tine Ja- tine AnTrebizond, sita; ill- gelus, the
whose descend- treated; founder of
ants fled to retired to the family
France after a convent, of the
the capture of Angeli.
SConstantinople in 1453.

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1. Alexis, titular Emperor, born in 1106, in Macedonia; died before his father, probably in 1142,
at Attalia, the capital of Pamphylia; his wife,
whose name is unknown, survived him.
A daughter, married Alexis Protostratus, son of
Joannes Axuch, or Axuchus, the excellent Turkish
minister of the emperors Calo-Joannes and Manuel.

2. Andronicus, Sebastocrator;
died shortly after his brother Alexis, and likewise
before his father; his wife
was Irene, at whose persuasion Constantine Manasses wrote his poetical
Annals.!

Further
issue, see
below III.

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1. Joannes, Protoves- 2. Alexis, Protostrator, 3. Maria, 4. Theodora 5. Eudoxia; first
tiarius, Protosebastus Protovestiarius, Proto- married (Calusina), husband ununder the emperor sebastus; governed the 1. Theodore the haughty known; after his
Manuel; killed about empire for the minor, Dasiota; concubine of death concubine
1174, in a battle Alexis II.; his arrogance 2. Joannes the emperor of Andronicus
against the Turks; insupportable to many Cantacuze- Manuel, by Comnenus, afterwell known to the of the Greek nobles, nus. whom she had wards emperor;
Latins in Syria and who declared for Andro- 2. Mich. Gabra,
Palestine; wife un- nicus Comnenus; blind- about 1173.
known. ed and castrated by Andronicus; died in prison Alexis.
in 1183.
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1. Alexis. 2. Maria, 3. Some daughters. Stephanus, Magnus Drungarius.
married in
1164, but not in 1167 as Ducange says, Amaury or Amalric I., king of Jerusalem, and, after his death,
about 1176, 2. Baliano de Ibelino, an Italian noble.
From above. III. Further Issue of the Emperor CALO-JOANNES.

3. Isaac Sebastocrator,
deprived of the succession by his father;
on good terms with his
younger brother, the
emperor Manuel; wife
unknown.
a

4. Manuel,
Emperor.
Seebelow,
IV.

5. Maria,
twin sister
of Alexis;
married Roger, Prince
of Capua,
Caesar.

6. A daughter,
married Stephanus Contostephanus, who was
killed in the siege
of Corcyra, about
1160.

7. A daughter, married
Theodore
Vatatzes,
Dux.