Manuel Komnenos was the eldest son of Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, and the progenitor of the Grand Komnenos dynasty of the Empire of Trebizond. He served his uncle, Manuel I Komnenos, as a
Miniature of Manuel's uncle, Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and his second wife, Maria of Antioch (from a manuscript now in the Vatican Library)
Miniature portrait of Andronikos I (from a 15th-century codex containing a copy of the Extracts of History by Joannes Zonaras)
Andronikos I Komnenos
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Andronikos I Komnenos, Latinized as Andronicus I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1183 to 1185. A nephew of John II Komnenos, Andronikos rose to fame in the reign of his cousin Manuel I Komnenos,
Manuel Komnenos (son of Andronikos I)
…Manuel Komnenos (Greek: Μανουήλ Κομνηνός, romanized: Manouēl Komnēnos; 1145–1185?) was the eldest son of Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, and the progenitor of the Grand Komnenos dynasty of the Empire of Trebizond. He served his uncle, Manuel I Komnenos, as a diplomatic envoy to the…
Hyperpyron of Andronikos Komnenos depicting the emperor crowned by Christ.
Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143–1180)
14th-century depiction of Theodora Komnene
Maria of Antioch, regent of the Byzantine Empire 1180–1182