Andronikos Komnenos was a Byzantine prince and military commander. The second-born son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, he was named sebastokrator and participated in the Battle of Philomelion against t
Portrait of the father of Andronikos, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, from a 12th-century Greek manuscript
Irene Doukaina
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Irene Doukaina or Ducaena was a Byzantine empress by marriage to the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. She was the mother of Emperor John II Komnenos and the historian Anna Komnene. She was initia
Andronikos Komnenos (son of Alexios I)
…and may have died early. Andronikos Komnenos was the fourth child and second son of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) and Empress Irene Doukaina, and was named after his maternal grandfather. As his parents were reigning at the time of his birth, he was accorded the appellation porphyrogennetos…
Probable representation of Irene Doukaina from the Pala d'Oro in St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy