Adrianos Dalassenos

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alexios Charon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1102

Notes:

"Anna, born ca. 1028, long outlived her husband and after his death ran the family as its undisputed matriarch. Anna became involved in conspiracies against the Doukas family, whom she never forgave for taking the throne in 1059. Later she also played a major role in the successful overthrow of Nikephoros III Botaneiates (r. 1078–81) and the rise of her son Alexios to the throne. After that, and for about fifteen years, she served as the virtual co-ruler of the empire along her son. She then retired to a monastery, where she died in 1100 or 1102." [Wikipedia]

"As empress-mother, she exerted more influence and power than the empress-consort, Irene Doukaina, a woman whom she hated because of past intrigues with the Doukas family." [Wikipedia]

"Under the Komenian dynasty, women continued to not only retain their roles set by previous empresses but made great strides in founding monasteries, patronizing churchmen, theologians and literary figures and being more assertive in imperial administration: most prominent in such roles were Anna Dalassene and her contemporary, Maria of Alania. Anna Dalassena is memorialized in Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party." [Wikipedia]

Family/Spouse: Ioannis Komnenos. Ioannis (son of Manual Erotikos Komnenos) was born about 1015; died on 12 Jul 1067. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1048

Notes:

"Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. Although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power. 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 halt the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery known as the Komnenian restoration. The basis for this recovery were various reforms initiated by Alexios. His appeals to Western Europe for help against the Turks were also the catalyst that likely contributed to the convoking of the Crusades." [Wikipedia]

Alexios married Irene Doukaina about 1078. Irene (daughter of Andronikos Doukas and Maria of Bulgaria) was born about 1066; died on 19 Feb 1123. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Konstantinos Diogenes. Konstantinos (son of Romanos IV Diogenes, Emperor of Byzantium and (Unknown daughter of Alusian of Bulgaria)) was born about 1050; died in 1074 in Antioch, Anatolia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]