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Comnenus, Alexius
Comnenus, Alexius (1048–1118) Byzantine emperor (1081–1118). In the mid-11th century Byzantine politics were dominated by a military aristocracy and court officials; Alexius Comnenus was an army general who forged an alliance between his military supporters and a number of court officials and so won the throne for himself. He succeeded in checking the challenge from the
NORMANS under Guiscard in the Mediterranean but was continually harassed by the threat of barbarian invasions. In 1095 he approached Pope Urban II for help in recruiting mercenaries, a call that led to the First
CRUSADE, which the pope hoped would save the empire from the Seljuk
TURKS. The Crusade was to Alexius's advantage and he was able to leave his son John to inherit the Byzantine empire on his death.
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Letter from the Black Sea: desperately seeking Dulcinea. (Turkish coastal cities)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/21/1996; 700+ words
; ...heyday of the empire of Trebizond, established by the Byzantine Comnenus family after Constantinople had fallen to Latin crusaders in...longer than Constantinople, Sultan Mehmet II executed the Comnenus males, but spared their women. One of the princesses, known...
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Soldiers of the Second Crusade leave from Devon. (Devon, England)(Freeze Frame: May 19th, 1147)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/1997; 700+ words
; ...Zengi and the deaths of the capable Byzantine emperor, John Comnenus, and Fulk of Anjou, the king of Jerusalem, left the Christian...motives and hidden agendas. The new Byzantine emperor, Manuel Comnenus, was insistent that all crusader conquests should be made...
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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall.
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 5/3/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...humiliation, and death. It begins on a somewhat hopeful note in the late eleventh century, with the rise to power of Alexius I Comnenus a decade after the resounding defeat of Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes by the Seljuk Turks at Manzikert. Alexius is probably...
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Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of Essays
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...on Syriac and Armenian sources concerning the conversion of the Mongols to Islam and Craig Hanson's discussion of Manuel I Comnenus's theological intervention regarding the Muslim view of the deity. Kenneth B.Wolf updates his earlier work on the Cordoban...
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Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...during a crucial century and a half in the Middle Ages: the period begins with the accession of the great emperor Alexius I Comnenus (1081) and closes with the recapture of Constantinople from the Latins in 1261.The title "Church and Society indicates...
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The Perfection of Solitude. Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...became more controlled and structured. This contrasted with the Byzantine houses which, although heavily supported by Manuel Comnenus for political reasons, remained autocephalous. As Jotischky concludes, a monastic purist like St. Bernard might see the...
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Hubert Houben. Rogier II of Sicily. A Ruler between East and West.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Italian Culture; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...royal privilege by the German emperors, heirs of the Western Roman Empire, who coveted the south. Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus, whose family had a long history of enmity with the Normans, conspired against him with different allies at different times...
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The capture of Jerusalem. (Israel, First Crusade)(includes bibliography)(Confronting the Crusades)
Magazine article from: History Today; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...But even this mission was a cause of strife. Urban II had wanted his great expedition to aid the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus in his struggle with the Turks who had seized Asia Minor, to rescue the Christians of the East from their captivity under...
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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...did much more because he signed a more promising Union. Can the reader profit from a sentence such as: `What would Alexius Comnenus have done or his son John II in the place of John V Paleologus? (p.348). If the author wants to point to a distinguished...
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STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES BACKGROUND NOTE ON ALBANIA
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...395, the Byzantine Empire established control over present-day Albania. In the 11th century, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus made the first recorded reference to a distinct area of land known as Albania and to its people. The Ottoman Empire ruled...
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Comnenus, Alexius
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Comnenus, Alexius (1048–1118) Byzantine emperor (1081–...politics were dominated by a military aristocracy and court officials; Alexius Comnenus was an army general who forged an alliance between his military supporters...
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Comnenus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Comnenus name of an imperial Byzantine dynasty of the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Comnena and Comnenus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Comnena and Comnenus, see Anna Comnena .
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Rulers of the Byzantine Empire
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...56 Michael VI Stratioticus 1056-57 Isaac I Comnenus 1057-59 Constantine X Ducas 1059-67 Michael...Nicephorus III Botaniates 1078-81 Alexius I Comnenus 1081-1118 John II Comnenus 1118-43 Manuel I Comnenus 1143-80 Alexius...
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empire of Trebizond
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...by two members of the former imperial Comnenus family, David and his brother Alexius...Trebizond, who took the titles of Grand Comnenus and emperor, which were assumed by all...the empire was the conquest of David Comnenus, who soon lost his dominions to Nicaea...
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