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15 giu 2024 · Daughter of Ladislaus I of Hungary and Adelheid, Prinzessin von Schwaben. Wife of John II the Good, Eastern Roman Emperor. Mother of Princess Maria Komnene; Andronikos Komnenos, Sebastokratōr; Anna Komnene; Isaakios Komnenos, Sebastokrator; Alexios Komnenos, Co-Emperor of the Byzantine Empire and 4 others.
29 giu 2024 · During his reign, from 1413 to 1421, the Byzantines enjoyed their last respite. Manuel II, aware that it could not last, made the most of it by strengthening the defenses and administration of the fragments of his empire. The most flourishing province in the last years was the Despotate of Morea.
4 giorni fa · During the crusade, Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, had almost besieged Constantinople because of the failure of the Byzantine government and Emperor, Isaac II Angelos to provide him with safe passage across the Dardanelles because Isaac was busy fighting a pretender named Theodore Mangaphas.
2 giorni fa · Byzantine historian John Kinnamos described Leon Vatatzes' military expedition along the northern Danube, where Vatatzes mentioned the participation of Vlachs in battles with the Magyars (Hungarians) in 1166.
14 giu 2024 · After the fiasco of the Fourth Crusade (1204) the Byzantine Emperors and intellectuals used the ethnonym "Hellenes" in an official context - Vatatzes and Laskaris were among the first who started calling Byzantines "Hellenes" and Byzantium as "Hellas" in official context.
15 giu 2024 · As Alexios lay on his deathbed in the monastery of the Mangana on 15 August 1118, John, consorting with relatives whom he could trust, among whom was his brother, the sebastokratōr Isaac Komnenos, stole into the monastery and removed the imperial signet ring from his dying father.
6 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.
