Council of Clermont
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The Council of Clermont was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Catholic Church, called by Pope Urban II and held from 17 to 27 November 1095 at Clermont, Auvergne, at the time part of th
Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, given a late Gothic setting in this illumination from the Livre des Passages d'Outre-mer, of c. 1474 (Bibliothèque nationale)
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
Council of Clermont
…and eventually the capture of Jerusalem and the establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. In this, Urban reacted to the request by Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus who had sent envoys to the Council of Piacenza requesting military assistance against the Seljuk Turks. Several accounts of the speech survive; of…
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