1) Comnenus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Comnenus, (komneŽns) (KEY) , family name of several Byzantine emperors-Isaac I, Alexius I, John II, Manuel I, Alexius II, and Andronicus I-who reigned in the 11th...
2) Alexius I Comnenus. The American Heritageź Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118) whose reign was marked by the First Crusade (1096-1099)....
3) Isaac I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Isaac I, (Isaac Comnenus) (iŽzk komneŽns) (KEY) , c.1005-1061, Byzantine emperor (1057-59), first of the Comneni dynasty. Proclaimed emperor by the army, he deposed...
4) Andronicus I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Andronicus I, (Andronicus Comnenus) (andrniŽks komneŽns) (KEY) , 1120?-1185, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), nephew of John II. He acceded to the throne by strangling...
5) Alexius I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Alexius I, (Alexius Comnenus) (lekŽses, kmneŽns) (KEY) , 1048-1118, Byzantine emperor (1081-1118). Under the successors of his uncle, Isaac I, the empire had fallen...
6) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Taylor, Sir Henry, D.C.L.
...(b. 1800; d. 1886). Isaac Comnenus (1827); Philip Van Artevelde (1834); The Statesman (1836); Edwin the Fair (1842); The Eve of the Conquest and other Poems (1847);...
7) 1083-1153/54. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...1083-1153/54 Anna Comnenus, eldest daughter of Alexius I, a patron of scholarship, and, with the production of the Alexiad, an able scholar in her own right. The...
8) 1180-83. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...1180-83 Alexius II Comnenus, the son of Manuel, who ruled under the regency of his mother, Maria of Antioch. The regent relied almost entirely on Latins in her service....
9) Trebizond, empire of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...empire of Trebizond. The last of these was founded by two members of the former imperial Comnenus family, David and his brother Alexius I (reigned 1204-22) of Trebizond,...
10) Alexius II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Alexius II, (Alexius Comnenus), 1168-83, Byzantine emperor (1180-83), son and successor of Manuel I. His mother, Mary of Antioch, who was regent for him, alienated...
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