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PLEASE NOTE: If you do not see a GRAPHIC IMAGE of a family tree here but are seeing this text instead then it is most probably because the web server is not correctly configured to serve svg pages correctly. see http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SVG:Server_Configuration for information on how to correctly configure a web server for svg files. ? Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child (a child) (four children) (three children) (three children) (two children) (a child) (a child) (a child) (a child) (a child) Eudoxia Comnenus 1104 - 1174 Isaac Comnenus 70 70 Irene Diplosynadene 1088 - 1143 John Comnenus of Romania 55 55 John II Comnenus, (1088 - 1143), was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143. Also known as Kalo Ioannes (John the Beautiful), he was the eldest son of the emperor Alexius, whom he succeeded in 1118.

On account of his mild and just reign he has been called the Byzantine Marcus Aurelius. By the personal purity and piety of his character he effected a notable improvement in the manners of his age, and he devoted his reign to restoring the Byzantine Empire to its former extents, before the disaster at Manzikert in 1071. His various successes against the invading Petchenegs, Serbians and Seljuk Turks, whose progress in Asia Minor he reverted, along with his attempts to establish Byzantine suzerainity over the Crusader States in Antioch and Edessa, did much to restore the reputation of his empire, even if the Comnenian dynasty in hindsight gave Byzantium, torn apart by corruption and invasions, but a brief respite against disintegration. His only serious - but very telling - setbacks were against the Venetians, upon whose naval strength the empire was dependent after the breakdown of the Byzantine fleet in the 11th century. An effort to reduce their extensive privileges within the empire ended with a humiliating return to status quo, many Byzantine ports being plundered in the process.

He was accidentally poisoned by his own arrow during a wild-boar hunt on Mount Taurus, on April 8, 1143. 1088 - 1143 Xenia Arpad 55 55 1108 Andronikos Comnenus 1122 Manilos Comnenus 1048 - 1118 Alexius Comnenus 70 70 Alexius I (1048-1118), Byzantine emperor (1081-1118), was the third son of John Comnenus, nephew of Isaac I Comnenus (emperor 1057-1059).

His father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081. Under one of these emperors, Romanus IV Diogenes (1067-1071), he served with distinction against the Seljuk Turks. Under Michael VII Parapinaces (1071-1078) and Nicephorus III Botaniates (1078-1081) he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace and in Epirus in 1071.

The success of the Comneni roused the jealousy of Botaniates and his ministers, and the Comneni were almost compelled to take up arms in self-defence. Botaniates was forced to abdicate and retire to a monastery, and Isaac declined the crown in favour of his younger brother Alexius, who then became emperor at the age of 33.

His long reign of nearly 37 years was full of struggle. At the very outset he had to meet the formidable attack of the Normans (Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemund), who took Dyrrhachium and Corfu, and laid siege to Larissa in Thessaly. The Norman danger ended for the time with Robert Guiscard's death in 1085, and the conquests were reversed.

He had next to repel the invasions of Petchenegs and Cumans in Thrace, with whom the Manichaean sect of the Bogomils made common cause; and thirdly, he had to cope with the fast-growing power of the Seljuk Turks in Asia Minor.

Above all he had to meet the difficulties caused by the arrival of the knights of the First Crusade, which had been, to a great degree, initiated as the result of the representations of his own ambassadors, whom he had sent to Pope Urban II in 1095. The help which he wanted from the West was simply mercenary forces and not the immense hosts which arrived, to his consternation and embarrassment. The first group, under Peter the Hermit, he dealt with by sending them on to Asia Minor, where they were massacred by the Turks in 1096. The second and much more serious host of knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, he also led into Asia, promising to supply them with provisions in return for an oath of homage, and by their victories recovered for the Byzantine Empire a number of important cities and islands -- Nicaea, Chios, Rhodes, Smyrna, Ephesus, Philadelphia, Sardis, and in fact most of Asia Minor (1097-1099). This is ascribed by his daughter Anna as a credit to his policy and diplomacy, but by the Latin historians of the crusade as a sign of his treachery and falseness.

During the last twenty years of his life he lost much of his popularity. The years were marked by persecution of the followers of the Paulician and Bogomil heresies -- one of his last acts was to burn Basilius, a Bogomil leader, with whom he had engaged in a theological controversy; by renewed struggles with the Turks (1110-1117); and by anxieties as to the succession, which his wife Irene wished to alter in favour of her daughter Anna's husband, Nicephorus Bryennius for whose benefit the special title panhypersebastos ("honored above all") was created. This intrigue disturbed even his dying hours.

He deserves the credit for having saved the Empire from a condition of anarchy and decay at a time when it was threatened on all sides by new dangers. No emperor devoted himself more laboriously, or with a greater sense of duty, to the task of ruling.

----- Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia -- Please update as needed 1066 - 1122 Irini Dukas 56 56 1015 - 1067 Ioannis Comnenus of Byzantium 52 52 1020 - 1101 Anna Dalassena 81 81 1048 Maria Comnenus 0946 Theodora of Byzantium 0955 - 1025 Manolis Michael Manuel Comnenus 70 70 Anna 1007 - 1061 Isaak Comnenus 54 54 0925 Isaak Comnenus Maria Erotica Alexios Pharo Dalassene 1039 Adrian Dalassene Theophylactos Dalassene Damianus Dalassene 1096 Theodora Comnenus 1105 - 1143 Maria Comnenus 38 38 1053 Theodora Comnene 1092 - 1152 Isaak Comnenus 60 60 Sources:
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