Alexius I Comnenus Emperor BYZANTINE EMPIRE 
Alexius I Comnenus Emperor was born in 1048 in Constantinople,Constantinople,Turkey. Alexius I Comnenus Emperor's father was Ioannis Comnenus and his mother was Anna "Augusta" Byzantine Regent Dalassena PHARO. His paternal grandparents were Manuel Comnenus and Anna; his maternal grandparents were Alexius Prefect of Italy PHARO and Dalassana DELASSENOS. He had five brothers and three sisters, named Manuel Comnenus Curopalate, Isaac Comnenus Sebastrocrator, Alexius I, Adrionos Comnenus, Nikephoros Comnenus, Maria Comnena, Eudocia Comnena and Theodora Comnena. He was the fifth oldest of the nine children. He died at the age of 70 on August 15th, 1118.General Notes
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Alexius I Comnenus (1048-1118), Byzantine emperor (1081-1118). Coming to the throne at a time when the Byzantine Empire was threatened by foreign enemies on every side, Alexius began his reign by combining with the Venetians to resist Norman invaders led by Robert Guiscard in Greece. In 1091 he defeated the Pechenegs, a Turkic tribe raiding the empire from the north; in the same year he stabilized the situation in the east by concluding a treaty with the Seljuk Turks. In 1095 Alexius appealed to Pope Urban II for help in recovering Anatolia from the Seljuks, thus helping to inspire the First Crusade. He exacted an oath of allegiance from the Crusade's leaders (among them, Bohemond, the son of his old enemy Robert Guiscard) when they arrived in Constantinople (present-day Ýstanbul) the following year. With their help, he regained control of western Anatolia, but he failed to prevent them from establishing independent states in Syria and Palestine. A dispute with Bohemond over the lordship of Antioch ended when the Norman acknowledged Alexius as his overlord in 1108. Alexius's biography, the Alexiad, was written by his daughter, Anna Comnena. It is considered a valuable source of historical information.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.15 Oct 1000 in Constantinople (Istanbul),Byzantine Empire (Turkey) d.12 Jun 1067
- b.1048 in Constantinople,Byzantium (now Turkey) d.15 Aug 1118
- b.~ 1020 in Constantinople,Byzantine Empire (Turkey) d.BET 1100 AND 1101
- b.>10 Jan 1092 in Constantinople,Byzantine Empire (Turkey) d.> 1152
- b.1036 in of,,Constantinople,Turkey d.14 Oct 1077
- b.1050 d.19 Feb 1122
- b.1033 in of,Ohrid,Makedonija,Bulgaria d.1118+ 21 Nov
- b.< 0960 in Castamin in Paphlagonia d.1020
- b.~ 0930
- b.15 Oct 1000 in Constantinople (Istanbul),Byzantine Empire (Turkey) d.12 Jun 1067
- b.~ 0975
- b.1048 in Constantinople,Constantinople,Turkey d.15 Aug 1118
- b.~ 0995 in Armenia,Byzantine Empire
- b.~ 1020 in Constantinople,Byzantine Empire (Turkey) d.BET 1100 AND 1101
- b.~ 0970 d.> 1039
- b.~ 1000
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Alexius I Comnenus Emperor were married in a religious ceremony in 1080.
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