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26 mag 2024 · A new Byzantine army, under the command of the Emperor's son-in-law, Isaac Komnenos, launched a counterinvasion. Asen's Vlach, Bulgarian and Cuman troops surrounded the invaders and defeated them near Serres. Komnenos was captured by a Cuman warrior who secretly tried to hold him to ask for a huge ransom from the Emperor.
6 giorni fa · At least a part of the fleet stopped at Cyprus, where Thierry of Flanders made a claim on the island in the name of his wife, the Damsel of Cyprus, daughter of Isaac Doukas Komnenos, former emperor of Cyprus.
20 mag 2024 · Isaac I Komnenos; Isaac II Angelos; Isaac Argyros; Isaac Doukas Vatatzes; Isaac Komnenos (brother of Alexios I) Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I) Isaac Komnenos (son of John II) Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus; Isaac Komnenos Vatatzes; Isaac Kontostephanos; Isaac Laskaris; Isaac the Armenian; Isabella of Villehardouin; Isaias, Patriarch of ...
4 giorni fa · In 1253, Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes accused him of plotting against the throne, though Michael escaped the accusation without punishment following a trial by ordeal of holding a red-hot iron. Though Michael continued to be mistrusted even after this, he married John III's grandniece Theodora Vatatzaina and was appointed as the megas konostaulos of the Latin mercenaries employed by the ...
3 giorni fa · Byzantium and the Crusades. London, Hambledon and London Books, 2003, ISBN: 1852852984; 277pp.; Price: £19.95. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. On 13 April 1204 the western or Latin armies participating in the Fourth Crusade conquered Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium.
26 mag 2024 · The island was a strategically important stepping stone for European armies en route to the Holy Land, and control over Cyprus was fiercely contested by various powers. In 1191, during the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart of England seized Cyprus from the Byzantine ruler Isaac Komnenos.
7 mag 2024 · The Massacre of the Latins was a significant event in 1182, where the Roman Catholic or “Latin” inhabitants of Constantinople were massacred by the usurper Andronikos Komnenos and his supporters. This event severely affected political relations between Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire.
