Isaákios Komnēnos

• Preferred Name: Isaákios Komnēnos^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Issakios Comnenus
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Prince de Cilicia & Macedonia with note: data standardization
  
• alt.birth: ABT 1115
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Prince Of The Byzantine Empire
  
• Life+Sketch: with note: Description: saac Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Isaakios Komnenos; c.?1113-after 1154), was the third son of Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos by Piroska of Hungary. «b»Life«/b» Shortly before his death in 1143, John II Komnenos designated his fourth son Manuel as his heir, although the third son, Isaac, was still alive. At the time Isaac was conducting the body of his eldest brother, the co-emperor Alexios Komnenos, back to Constantinople. Manuel had the powerful backing of the megas domestikos (commander-in-chief of the army) John Axuch who took control of the capital before Isaac learned of his father's death and could make any bid for the throne. Axuch was faithful to the wishes of John II, although he is recorded as having tried hard to persuade the dying emperor that Isaac was the better candidate to succeed. Although some of the clergy, the people and the military, thought that Isaac was better fit to rule, he had to resign himself to his younger brother's accession. In 1145'961146 he campaigned with him against the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia. Although the relationship between the brothers remained uneasy, there was never an open conflict, and Isaac enjoyed the court dignity of sebastokrator. The marriages of Isaac's daughters served as useful tools of Manuel's foreign policy. «b»Family«/b» By his first wife, Theodora Kamaterina (d. 1144), Isaac had five children: 1.) Alexios Komnenos (d. c. 1136). 2.) Ioannes Komnenos (d. c. 1136/7). 3.) Eirene Komnene, who married an unnamed Doukas Kamateros and became the mother of Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus. 4.) Anna Komnene, who married before 1166 Constantine Makrodoukas (d. 1185). 5.) Maria Komnene, who married in 1156 King Stephen IV of Hungary. By his second wife, Eirene Diplosynadene, whom he married in 1146, Isaac had two daughters: 1.) Theodora Komnene (b. 1145/6), who was the lover of Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos and married in 1158 King Baldwin III of Jerusalem. 2.) Eudokia Komnene, who married William VIII of Montpellier.
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sebastokrator Of The Byzantine EmpireAFT 1120 in Byzantine Empire at LATI: N1.15 LONG: E8.75
  
• Occupation: Sebastokrator of Cyprus1122
  
• Death: 1160
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Duke Durazzo
  
• FSID: L1RP-F94
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sebastokrator of the Byzantine Empire
  
• Birth: 1113 in Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire at LATI: N1.15 LONG: E8.75
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Isaac Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Isaakios Komnenos; c.?1113-after 1154), was the third son of Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos by Irene "Piroska" of Hungary.
  
  Life
  
  Shortly before his death in 1143, John II Komnenos designated his fourth son Manuel as his heir, although the third son, Isaac, was still alive. At the time Isaac was conducting the body of his eldest brother, the co-emperor Alexios Komnenos, back to Constantinople.
  
  Manuel had the powerful backing of the megas domestikos (commander-in-chief of the army) John Axuch who took control of the capital before Isaac learned of his father's death and could make any bid for the throne. Axuch was faithful to the wishes of John II, although he is recorded as having tried hard to persuade the dying emperor that Isaac was the better candidate to succeed. Although some of the clergy, the people and the military, thought that Isaac was better fit to rule, he had to resign himself to his younger brother's accession.
  
  In 1145 he campaigned with him against the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia. Although the relationship between the brothers remained uneasy, there was never an open conflict, and Isaac enjoyed the court dignity of sebastokrator. The marriages of Isaac's daughters served as useful tools of Manuel's foreign policy.
  
  Family
  By his first wife, Theodora Kamaterina (d. 1144), Isaac had five children:
  
  1.) Alexios Komnenos (d. c. 1136).
  
  2.) Ioannes Komnenos (d. c. 1136/7).
  
  3.) Eirene Komnene, who married an unnamed Doukas Kamateros and became the mother of Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus.
  
  4.) Anna Komnene, who married before 1166 Constantine Makrodoukas (d. 1185).
  
  5.) Maria Komnene, who married in 1156 King Stephen IV of Hungary.
  
  By his second wife, Eirene Diplosynadene, whom he married in 1146, Isaac had two daughters:
  
  1.) Theodora Komnene (b. 1145/6), who was the lover of Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos and married in 1158 King Baldwin III of Jerusalem.
  
  2.) Eudokia Komnene, who married William VIII of Montpellier.
  
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  === !Byzantium, The Decline and Fall, John J ===
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• m. 1144 in Byzantine Empire

1. Eudókia Komnēnē, b. 1160 in Constantinople, Constantinople, Turkey     d. 4 NOV 1202 in Raška, Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia

1. Title: Wikiwand: Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I)
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Isaac_Komnenos_(son_of_Alexios_I);
   Note: Isaac Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός, translit. Isaakios Komnēnos; 16 January 1093 – after 1152) was the third son of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Empress Irene Doukaina. He was raised to the high rank of sebastokrator by his older brother John II Komnenos in reward for his support, but they later fell out, as Isaac began to covet the throne. In 1130, Isaac and his sons fled to exile after becoming involved in a conspiracy against John. For several years, they wandered in Asia Minor and the Levant, trying to gain support from the local rulers, but ultimately in vain. John's military successes forced Isaac to seek a reconciliation with his brother in 1138, although he did not give up his designs on the throne. In 1139, after his oldest son defected to the Seljuk Turks, Isaac was exiled to Heraclea Pontica. During the struggle for John's succession in 1143, he supported the unsuccessful candidacy of his elder nephew, likewise named Isaac, over his younger nephew Manuel I Komnenos. In 1150, weakened by the onset of an illness, he was forced to retire from public life by Manuel. Isaac then devoted himself to the construction of the monastery of Theotokos Kosmosoteira at Bera (modern Feres) in western Thrace, where he was to be buried. Isaac was noted for his erudition and his patronage of learning, and is considered the author of a number of scholarly and poetic works. He is also notable for rebuilding the Chora Church in Constantinople, where his mosaic donor portrait survives to this day. His younger son Andronikos I Komnenos eventually managed to realize Isaac's ambitions, becoming emperor in 1183–1185, the last of the Komnenian dynasty. Early life Born on 16 January 1093, Isaac Komnenos was the fifth child and third son of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) and Empress Irene Doukaina. As his father was reigning at the time, Isaac was a true porphyrogennetos, a title that is consistently associated with him throughout his life. Following the death of his uncle, Nikephoros Melissenos, in 1104, Isaac was given the rank of Caesar by his father. During the succession struggle that followed the death of his father in 1118, Isaac supported his elder brother John II Komnenos (r. 1118–1143) against the intrigues of Empress-dowager Irene and their sister Anna Komnene, who favoured the candidacy of Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger. In return, John II raised Isaac to the rank of sebastokrator (already borne by their middle brother, Andronikos).[ The conferral of this highest court rank, created by Alexios I to honour his elder brother Isaac, marked its bearer as almost equal to the emperor. Nevertheless, throughout his life, in almost all surviving texts or artifacts authored or funded by Isaac, he is not known by his rank, but rather by the title of porphyrogennetos, which is often accompanied by an explicit reference to his father, Alexios I, rather than the reigning emperor, as was customary. This emphasis on his descent is very indicative of Isaac's perception of his status, and most likely represents a conscious choice; a legitimizing device for his imperial ambitions. Exile and wanderings Relations between Isaac and John II were cordial at first, but began to deteriorate, so that by 1130 they had become estranged. The reasons for this are left unexplained by the sources; Niketas Choniates and John Kinnamos simply report that Isaac had set his sight on the throne. Possibly the onset of the rift between the brothers was in 1122, when John raised his own firstborn son, Alexios, to co-emperor, thus superseding Isaac. In 1130, Isaac became involved in a conspiracy against John at a time when the latter was away from Constantinople, campaigning against the Seljuk Turks of the Sultanate of Rum. The conspiracy was uncovered, but Isaac and his two sons managed to flee Constantinople and find refuge at the court of the Danishmendid emir Gümüshtigin Ghazi (r. 1104–1134) at Melitene. Isaac remained in exile for six years, during which time he traversed most of Asia Minor and the Levant, seeking to create a broad alliance with other rulers, both Christian and Muslim, against his brother. The main sources for this period of his life are Choniates, the court poet Theodore Prodromos, and Michael the Syrian. From Melitene, Isaac went to Trebizond, whose governor, Constantine Gabras, had broken away from Byzantium in 1126 and was ruling the area of Chaldia as an independent prince. In the winter of 1130–1131, according to Michael the Syrian, Isaac met again with Gabras, and a league was created between Isaac, Gümüshtigin Ghazi and the Sultan of Rum, Mesud I (r. 1116–1156).[13] Isaac then went to Armenian Cilicia to entice its lord, Leo I, into the league. He was initially well received in Cilicia and spent some time there. His eldest son John even married one of Leo's daughters, and received the cities of Mopsuestia and Adana as her dowry. After a short while, however, they fell out with Leo too, and were forced to seek shelter with Sultan Mesud, abandoning their possessions in Cilicia. According to Michael the Syrian, news of these machinations enraged John II, who in 1132 embarked on a campaign against both the Turks and the Armenians, capturing two fortresses on the shores of the Black Sea. However, his campaign was cut short when Isaac's sympathizers in Constantinople tried to use the emperor's absence to stage a coup. Informed of the conspiracy, John returned to the capital and thwarted their plans, but the Turks were able to counterattack and raid successfully into Byzantine territory, threatening the fortresses of Zinin and Sozopolis. Following 1132, Isaac is no longer mentioned by Michael the Syrian. During this time, he visited the Holy Land in pilgrimage, financing the construction of a new aqueduct for the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist near the Jordan River. It is likely, although no source mentions this, that the journey also had the purpose of seeking the aid of the King of Jerusalem, Fulk (r. 1131–1143). Return to Byzantium and accession of Manuel I Despite his wanderings, Isaac's attempted coalition failed to materialize, while John II's position continued to improve. The emperor's military successes, particularly following his Syrian campaign in 1137–1138 that led to the submission of the Principality of Antioch to the empire, enhanced his standing with the Byzantine aristocracy, officialdom, and the common people. As a result, Isaac's supporters in the empire began to desert his cause. Thus Isaac was forced to seek reconciliation with his brother: along with his eldest son John, Isaac met his brother during the imperial army's return from Antioch in spring 1138. John II readily forgave his brother, and brought him to Constantinople; indeed, according to Choniates, the emperor was more pleased about this reconciliation than his victories. Soon after, in 1139, Isaac's son John again defected to the Turks. Either at that point or a little later, Isaac was banished as a precaution to Heraclea Pontica. Shortly before John II died in April 1143, he had designated his fourth and youngest son Manuel as his heir over his third (and oldest surviving) son, the sebastokrator Isaac. Consequently, Manuel's succession was not immediately secure. In this struggle for the throne, the elder Isaac threw his support behind the younger Isaac. However, the decisive intervention of John Axouch, the commander-in-chief of the army, was to secure the throne for Manuel. Isaac, who had been living in relative comfort in Heraclea, was imprisoned on Axouch's orders. Manuel nevertheless felt his position strong enough to release his uncle, and both the elder and younger Isaacs attended Manuel's coronation on 28 November 1143. Even then, Isaac did not abandon his ambitions; according to the contemporary historian John Kinnamos, during one of Manuel's first campaigns against the Turks in 1146, when news spread in the camp that the emperor, rushing into the fray, was surrounded by enemies, Isaac immediately sped to the imperial tent, ready to be proclaimed emperor. Final years and death After 1150, Manuel forced his uncle to retire from public affairs, a decision perhaps connected to a chronic illness that appeared at the time. Isaac retired to his estates in Thrace, and in 1151/52, founded the cenobitic monastery of the Theotokos Kosmosoteira ("Theotokos the World-Saviour") at Bera (modern Feres). The construction of the monastery, which was meant as his residence and final resting place, was of great emotional importance to Isaac, who invested considerable time and effort in it: although heavily ill at the time, he still went and supervised the monastery's construction almost daily, and personally authored its typikon in 1152, making meticulous provisions about its governance and assigning extensive grants to it, including his own estates at Ainos. Possibly in imitation to his brother's foundation of the Pantokrator Monastery, he also ordered the erection of a hospital outside the monastery walls. The typikon was also a kind of last will, where Isaac regulated the affairs of his household—the head of his retinue Leo Kastamonites, the secretary Michael, the pinkernes Constantine, Isaac's personal priest the protovestiarios Constantine, and others—his family, and other dependents, such as a Jewish couple that he had personally converted to Christianity, baptizing them with the names of his parents. Isaac probably died shortly after the typikon was written. Isaac's imperial ambitions—an "ancestral inheritance passed to his children," according to Kinnamos —were finally realized by his second son, Andronikos. Charismatic and capable, but also ruthless and violent, he overthrew Manuel I's Empress-dowager and regent, Maria of Antioch, in 1182, and in the next year deposed and killed her infant son, Alexios II Komnenos (r. 1180–1183). He attempted much-needed ref...
   
2. Title: Wikiwand: Sebastokrator
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   Note: Sebastokrator (Greek: σεβαστοκράτωρ, sebastokrátor; Bulgarian and Serbian Cyrillic: севастократор; both pronounced sevastokrator), was a senior court title in the late Byzantine Empire. It was also used by other rulers whose states bordered the Empire or were within its sphere of influence (Bulgarian Empire, Serbian Empire). The word is a compound of "sebastos" ("venerable", the Greek equivalent of the Latin Augustus) and "krátor" ("ruler", the same element as is found in "autokrator", "emperor"). The wife of a Sebastokrator was named sebastokratorissa (σεβαστοκρατόρισσα, sevastokratórissa) in Greek or sevastokratitsa (севастократица) in Bulgarian and sevastokratica (севастократица) in Serbian. History The title was created by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) to honour his elder brother Isaac Komnenos.[1] According to Anna Komnene, Alexios did this to raise Isaac above the rank of Caesar, which he had already promised to his brother-in-law, Nikephoros Melissenos. Anna Komnene compares the rank of sebastokratōr to "a second emperor", and also records that along with the Caesar a sebastokratōr was granted the right to wear a crown (but not the imperial diadem).[2] During the Komnenian dynasty (1081–1185), the title continued to be the highest below that of Emperor until 1163, when Emperor Manuel I created the title of despotes. During that period, it was given exclusively to members of the imperial family, chiefly younger sons of the emperor.[1] After the dismemberment of the Byzantine Empire by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the title was adopted in the Latin Empire, the Empire of Nicaea, and the Bulgarian Empire. In Nicaea and the post-1261 restored Byzantine Empire, the title remained one of the highest court dignities, and was almost always restricted to members of the imperial family. The last known holder of the title was Demetrios Kantakouzenos, a ruler in the Peloponnese in the late 14th century. According to the sources, the distinctive colour associated with the title was blue: the sebastokratōr′s ceremonial costume included blue stockings and blue boots. In circa 1260, according to George Akropolites, the sebastokratores who were members of the imperial family were distinguished from those who were not by having embroidered golden eagles on their shoes.[3] By the time of pseudo-Kodinos in the mid-14th century, the insignia associated with the rank were a skiadion hat in red and gold, decorated with gold-wire embroideries, with a veil bearing the wearer's name and pendants identical to those of the despotēs. He wore a red tunic (rouchon) similar to the emperor's, but without the rizai decorations and the insignia of military power. His mantle (tamparion) was no longer known, but the stockings were blue; under John VI Kantakouzenos (r. 1347–1354), however, when the emperor raised his brothers-in-law Manuel and John Asanes to the rank, he permitted them to wear tamparia and stockings like those of the despotēs. The sebastokratōr's shoes and stockings were blue, with gold-embroidered eagles on red background; and his horse tack was also of blue, his saddle blanket featuring furthermore four red-embroidered eagles. His tent was white with blue decorations. The form of the domed skaranikon, on the other hand, for the sebastokratōr was unknown to pseudo-Kodinos. The sebastokratōr also had the prerogative of signing documents with a special blue ink. Bulgaria Kaloyan inherited the title possibly from his father Aleksandar (d. after 1232), a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria (r. 1189–1196).[5] Serbia See also: Medieval Serbian noble titles This title was also adopted in the court of medieval Serbia, under the Nemanjić dynasty, the Serbian Kings and Emperors (1217–1346; 1346–1371). List of holders This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Aleksandar Asen (d. after 1232), Bulgarian prince Kaloyan (fl. 1259), Bulgarian magnate, held Sofia Dejan (fl. 1346-1356), Serbian magnate, held Žegligovo and Preševo Alexios III Angelos, Byzantine John Angelos, Byzantine Sabas Asidenos, Byzantine and Nicaean magnate Conon de Béthune, French crusader Constantine Doukas of Thessaly John Doukas, Byzantine Stephen Gabrielopoulos, Byzantine John I Doukas of Thessaly, Byzantine John II Doukas of Thessaly, Byzantine Demetrios I Kantakouzenos, Byzantine Andronikos Komnenos (son of John II) Isaac Komnenos (brother of Alexios I), Byzantine Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I), Byzantine Isaac Komnenos (son of John II), Byzantine Branko Mladenović, Serbian Momchil, brigand in Rhodopes Stefan the First-Crowned, Serbian Jovan Oliver, Serbian Constantine Palaiologos (half-brother of Michael VIII), Byzantine John Palaiologos (brother of Michael VIII), Byzantine Vlatko Paskačić, Serbian John Petraliphas, Byzantine Strez, Bulgarian Blasius Matarango (fl. 1358–67), Albanian nobleman, prince of Karavasta region
   
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