Alexios Komnenos (co-emperor)
Alexios Komnenos | |
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Spouse | Eupraxia-Dobrodjeja of Kiev Eirene-Kata of Georgia |
Issue | Maria Komnene |
Dynasty | Komnenos |
Father | John II Komnenos |
Mother | Irene of Hungary |
Alexios Komnenos,
Life
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.[4] 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).[5] 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.[6] 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 by Theodore Prodromos was addressed to John and his son on the occasion of the coronation of Alexios. It hailed both rulers as "kings born of kings and emperors, reformers of old customs and privileges, with whom the august throne and sceptre-bearing are a paternal acquisition, a matter of inheritance."[7]
His final illness is described: "...of the severest kind and of short duration, took the form of a rushing fever attacking the head as though it were an acropolis."
Family
It is possible that Alexios married twice, the first wife being
His daughter, Maria Komnene, married the
They were the parents of
Footnotes
- ISBN 9788888620268.
- ^ Spatharakis 1976, pp. 79–83.
- ^ PBW (2017), Alexios 103
- ^ Bárány 2019, pp. 64–67.
- ^ Hendy 1999, p. 244.
- ^ a b Varzos 1984, p. 339-348.
- ^ Magdalino 1993, p. 422.
- ^ a b Choniates 1984, pp. 21–22.
- ^ Choniates 1984, p. 374.
- ^ Choniates 1984, p. 59.
- ^ Lynda Garland and Andrew Stone, "Mary of Antioch"
- ^ Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire historique et Généalogique des grandes familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople (1983), p. 276.
- ^ Kuršankis, "Autour des sources Georgiennes de la fondation de l’empire de Trebizonde", Archeion Pontou, 30 (1970), 107–115; cited in Kelsey Jackson Williams, "A Genealogy of the Grand Komnenoi of Trebizond", Foundations, 2 (2006), pp. 173f
References
- Bárány, Attila (2019). "Diplomatic Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries". In Marianne, Sághy; Ousterhout, Robert (eds.). Piroska and the Pantokrator. JSTOR 10.7829/j.ctvs1g99q.
- ISBN 0-8143-1764-2.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - Hendy, Michael F. (1999). Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection. Vol. 4. ISBN 9780884022336.
- Jeffrey, Michael, ed. (2017). "Alexios 103". ISBN 978-1-908951-20-5.
- ISBN 0-521-52653-1.
- Spatharakis, Ioannis (1976). The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts. Brill. ISBN 9789633862971.
- Varzos, Konstantinos (1984). Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών [The Genealogy of the Komnenoi] (PDF) (in Greek). Vol. A. Thessaloniki: OCLC 834784634.