Alexios I Komnenos
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Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. After usurping the imperial office he was faced with a collapsing empire and constant warfare throughout h
Portrait of Alexios within the Panoplia Dogmatica written by Euthymios Zigabenos
Seal of Alexios as "Grand Domestic of the West"
Low relief depicting Alexios I, Campiello de Cà Angaran, Venice, early 12th century.
Scyphate (cup-shaped) hyperpyron minted under Manuel I Komnenos
Anna Komnene
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Anna Komnene, commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine Greek princess and historian. She is the author of the Alexiad, an account of the reign of her father, Byzantine emperor Alexios I Kom
Alexios I Komnenos
…Byzantine rule. On Alexios's death in 1118, he was succeeded by his son John II Komnenos. Alexios's reign and campaigns were recorded by his daughter Anna Komnene in her Alexiad, a political and military history, which she named after her father. Alexios was the son of John Komnenos and Anna Dalassene, and the…
"Anna Komnene" by Ctesse Drohojowska (1852)
John II, Anna's brother and Alexios I's successor to the imperial throne.
Anna Komnene's Alexiad (12th century manuscript, Laurentian Library)