Manuel Komnenos (kouropalates)

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Manuel Komnenos
Asia Minor
RelationsJohn Komnenos (Father), Anna Dalassene (Mother), Alexios I Komnenos and Isaac Komnenos (Brothers), Alexios Charon (Grandfather), Manuel Erotikos Komnenos (Grandfather)

Manuel Komnenos (

Turkish
raids from 1070, until his sudden death by illness in April 1071.

Origin and marriage

Manuel was the first-born child of

domestikos ton scholon (commander-in-chief) of the eastern field army.[2]

In 1057, his uncle,

protoproedros, and on the occasion of his marriage, Diogenes promoted him further to kouropalates.[6] The couple had at least one daughter, most likely named Anna after Manuel's mother.[7]

Military career and death

The emperor also gave Manuel the military rank of

Asia Minor. In one skirmish in 1070, he foolhardily pressed ahead to the Turkish camp, and was captured after a bitter struggle. His loss led to the defeat of his army and the capture of his two lieutenants and brothers-in-law, Michael Taronites and Nikephoros Melissenos.[10] Brought before the Turkish leader, a certain Chrysoskoulos, Manuel managed to inflame his ambition and raise him in revolt against his nominal sovereign, Sultan Alp Arslan (r. 1063–1072). Indeed, Chrysoskoulos accompanied his captives to the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, where Romanos IV received them with much honour.[11]

In spring 1071, Manuel and Chrysoskoulos went on campaign together against the Seljuqs, but in

ear infection. His mother hurried to his side at the monastery of Theotokos of Alypos on Mount Azalas, but arrived barely in time for him to bid her farewell before he died.[11] According to the early 12th-century typikon (foundational charter) of the Monastery of Christ Philanthropos, founded by Empress Irene Doukaina, wife of Manuel's younger brother Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118),[12] he died on 17 April (the day when he is commemorated).[13] In the typikon, he is listed as sebastos, one of the most exalted court ranks at the time the typikon was written, but this is an anachronism reflecting later practice.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b Varzos 1984, p. 61.
  2. ^ Varzos 1984, p. 61 (note 4).
  3. ^ Garland 1999, pp. 168, 187.
  4. ^ Varzos 1984, pp. 52, 61–62, 85.
  5. ^ Garland 1999, p. 187.
  6. ^ a b Varzos 1984, pp. 61–62.
  7. ^ Varzos 1984, pp. 63–64.
  8. ^ Guilland 1967b, p. 480.
  9. ^ Guilland 1967a, p. 453.
  10. ^ Varzos 1984, pp. 62–63.
  11. ^ a b Varzos 1984, p. 63.
  12. ^ Kouroupou & Vannier 2005, pp. 41ff..
  13. ^ a b Kouroupou & Vannier 2005, p. 60.

Sources

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  • Guilland, Rodolphe (1967). "Le Domestique des Scholes". Recherches sur les institutions byzantines, Tome I (in French). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. pp. 426–468.
  • Guilland, Rodolphe (1967). "Le Protostrator". Recherches sur les institutions byzantines, Tome I (in French). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. pp. 478–497.
  • Kouroupou, Matoula; Vannier, Jean-François (2005). "Commémoraisons des Comnènes dans le typikon liturgique du monastère du Christ Philanthrope (ms. Panaghia Kamariotissa 29)" [Commemorations of the Komnenoi in the liturgical typikon of the Monastery of Christ Philanthropos (ms. Panaghia Kamariotissa 29)]. Revue des études byzantines (in French). 63: 41–69.
    doi:10.3406/rebyz.2005.2305
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  • Varzos, Konstantinos (1984). Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών [The Genealogy of the Komnenoi] (PDF) (in Greek). Vol. A. Thessaloniki:
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