Events
Date of Birth: about 1015.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Varzos.
Date of Death: 12 July 1067.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Varzos.
Relationships
Father: Manuel Komnenos (Erotikos).
This relationship is given by Radić, by the ODB (Genealogy of the Komnenos Family), by Varzos (p. 49), and by the PBW, citing Anna Komnene 324.65 and Bryennios 75.7-8. Radić and Cheynet note that Erotikos was very probably Manuel’s maternal family name.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Anna Dalassena.
This relationship is given by Radić, by the ODB (Genealogy of the Komnenos Family), by Varzos (p. 51), and by the PBW, citing Bryennios 77.18.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Varzos, including estimated dates.)
Manuel (about 1045 - spring 1071) married a relative of Romanos Diogenes.
Maria (born about 1047) married Michael Taronites.
Isaakios (about 1050 - about 1103) married Irene, a daughter of the ruler of Alania.
Evdokia (born about 1052) married Nikeforos Melissenos.
Theodora (born about 1054) married Konstantinos Diogenes.
Alexios (1057 - 15 August 1118), later Emperor Alexios I, married (1) a daughter of someone surnamed Argyros; married (2) Irene Doukaina.
Adrianos (born about 1060 - died 19 April 1105) married Zoe Doukaina.
Nikeforos (born about 1062).
References
Cawley, Charles. “IOANNES Komnenos” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Cheynet, Jean-Claude. “L’aristocratie byzantine (VIIIe - XIIIe)’ in Journal des savants Année 2000 Volume 2 Numéro 1 pp. 281-322.
Kazhdan, Alexander P. and others, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 1991).
M. Jeffreys et al., Prosopography of the Byzantine World (2011) “Ioannes Komnenos, father Alexios I” http://db.pbw.kcl.ac.uk/pbw2011/entity/person/107266 [consulted 31 July 2014].
Radić, Radivoj, "Komnenian dynasty (1081-1185)", 2008, Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Constantinople
Varzos (Barzos), Konstantinos. Η Γενεαλογία των Κομνηνών. The Centre for Byzantine Studies of the School of Philosophy, University of Thessaloniki:1984.