Isaac Komnenos or Comnenus was a notable Byzantine aristocrat and military commander in the 1070s. Isaac played a major role in the rise to the throne of his younger brother, the Byzantine Emperor Ale
Seal of Isaac as protoproedros and domestikos ton scholon of the East in c. 1073, showing the military saint St. Theodore
Portrait of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, from a 12th-century Greek manuscript
John Komnenos was a Byzantine aristocrat, the nephew of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and governor of the strategically important city and theme of Dyrrhachium from 1091 to c. 1106.
Isaac Komnenos (brother of Alexios I)
…charge of Constantinople in his brother's absence, exiled him to either Sozopolis or Mesembria on the Black Sea coast of Thrace. In 1092/1094, his son John Komnenos, recently named doux of Dyrrhachium, was accused by Archbishop Theophylact of Ohrid of plotting against Alexios. A trial was held in front of the emperor…
The Byzantine-era city walls of Dyrrhachium (modern Durrës, Albania)