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Alexios I Komnenos
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans
Portrait of Alexios within the Panoplia Dogmatica written by Euthymios Zigabenos
Byzantine emperor
Reign
1 April 1081[1] – 15 August 1118
Coronation
4 April 1081[2]
Predecessor
Nikephoros III Botaneiates
Successor
John II Komnenos
Co-emperor
Constantine Doukas (1081–87)
Born
c. 1057
Died
15 August 1118[3] (aged 61–62)
Spouse
Irene Doukaina
Issue
Anna Komnene
Maria Komnene
John II Komnenos
Andronikos Komnenos
Isaac Komnenos
Eudokia Komnene
Theodora Komnene
Manuel Komnenos
Zoe Komnene
Names
Alexios Komnenos Αλέξιος Κομνηνός
Dynasty
Komnenian
Father
John Komnenos
Mother
Anna Dalassene
Religion
Eastern Orthodox
Alexios I Komnenos (Greek: Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός, translit. Aléxios Komnēnós, 1057 – 15 August 1118), Latinized Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. Although he was not the first emperor of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power and initiated a hereditary succession to the throne. Inheriting a collapsing empire and faced with constant warfare during his reign against both the Seljuq Turks in Asia Minor and the Normans in the western Balkans, Alexios was able to curb the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery known as the Komnenian restoration. His appeals to Western Europe for help against the Turks was the catalyst that sparked the First Crusade.
^"Alexiad", 2.10. "It was Holy Thursday [...] in the fourth indiction in the month of April 6589. [He] poured into the city through the Charisian Gate".
^Romuald Guarna (c. 1180). Chronicon, a. 1081. MGH XIX, p. 409. "Alexius [...] entered the city on Thursday night [and] was crowned on the day of the Lord's Resurrection."
^Choniates, p. 7
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