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Hace 13 horas · A ls Alexios Komnenos (1057–1118) im Jahr 1081 Kaiser von Byzanz wurde, war das kaum eine Position, die große Meriten versprach. Innerhalb von 56 Jahren hatte ein knappes Dutzend Vorgänger aus ...
Hace 5 días · Isaac I Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός, Isaakios Komnēnos; c. 1007 – 1 June 1060) was Byzantine emperor from 1057 to 1059, the first reigning member of the Komnenian dynasty. The son of the general Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, he was orphaned at an early age, and was raised under the care of Emperor ...
Sure you can compare them to Alexios Komnenos who managed to stablize and reverse a very similar situation, but it is not like it wasn't a really close call for Alexios I., too. One lucky break less, like Guiscard dropping dead of an illness, and we very well might luck at Alexios Komnenos as the last one of a number of increasingly pathetic ursurpers.
Hace 2 días · Cumans had served as mercenaries in the armies of the Byzantine Empire since the reign of Alexios I Komnenos (1081–1118) and were one of the most important elements of the Byzantine army until the mid-14th century.
Hace 5 días · Alexius Komnenos mentions that in 1082 he passed through a Vlach settlement called Exeva in Macedonia. Anna Komnene mentions in her Alexiad that in 1091 Emperor Alexios ordered Nikephoros Melissenos to raise an army against invading Pechenegs. Melissenos recruited, among others, Bulgarians and "the nomadic tribes called Vlachs in popular parlance".
Hace 4 días · As Gregory notes, Alexios Komnenos came at a very significant and opportune time, at the point when European feudalism was in full swing and European nobles were zealous for the ideals of crusading on one hand, and on the other when the invading Islamic Seljuk Turks had become a real threat to the Christian East and eventually took the holy city of Jerusalem, as well as the Norman raiders ...
Hace 5 días · 16 May 2024. Origin. View original. Jerusalem-Rome-Cologne. His Beatitude, Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem entered today Gaza and reached the parish of the Holy...
