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	Alexius I - LoveToKnow 1911
		ALEXIUS I. emperor of the East, was the third son of John Comnenus, nephew of Isaac Comnenus, emperor 1057-10J9.
		His father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between that date and 1081.
		Botaniates was forced to abdicate and retire to a monastery, and Isaac declined the crown in favour of his younger brother Alexius, who then became emperor in the 33rd year of his age.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alexius_I (450 words)

	Alexius I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Next, Alexius secured the alliance of the Cumans and with their help defeated (1091) the Pechenegs, who had beseiged Constantinople.
		The last years of Alexius’ reign were consumed by fresh struggles with the Turks and by the intrigues of his daughter Anna Comnena against his son and heir, John II.
		Alexius’ reign restored Byzantine military and naval power and political prestige, but brought onerous taxation, the depreciation of currency, and the extension of feudalism by grants of estates, draining imperial strength.
	www.bartleby.com /65/al/Alexius1.html (383 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Alexius I
		Alexius I (1048-1118), Byzantine emperor (1081-1118), was the third son of John Comnenus, nephew of Isaac I Comnenus (emperor 1057-1059).
		His father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081.
		The success of the Comneni roused the jealousy of Botaniates and his ministers, and the Comneni were almost compelled to take up arms in self- defence.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/al/Alexius_I (402 words)

	Alexius Comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alexius I (1048 – August 15, 1118), Byzantine emperor (1081–1118), was the third son of John Comnenus, the nephew of Isaac I Comnenus (emperor 1057–1059).
		Alexius and Maria lived almost openly together at the Palace of Mangana, and Alexius had Michael VII and Maria's young son, the prince Constantine Ducas, adopted and proclaimed heir to the throne.
		Alexius was born in 1048, and died in 1118.
	www.themiddleages.net /people/alexius_comnenus.html (582 words)

	alexius i comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alexius I Comnenus(1048–August 15, 1118), Byzantine Empire emperor (1081–1118), was the third son of John Comnenus, nephew of Isaac I Comnenus (emperor 1057–1059).
		Alexius I Comnenus's father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081.
		Alexius I Comnenus deserves the credit for having saved the Empire from a condition of anarchy and decay at a time when it was threatened on all sides by new dangers.
	www.crusades-history.com /Alexius-I-Comnenus.aspx (545 words)

	Byzantine Coins of Alexius I
		Alexius I, 4 April 1081 - 15 August 1118 A.D. Joint rule with John II (his eldest son), 1092 - 15 August 1118 A.D. Alexius I, Comnenus got help from the Venetians early in his reign, and succeeded in putting an end to the Norman threat.
		Alexius was responsible for a fair amount of reconstruction of the Byzantine Empire.
		Alexius I was succeeded by his son and co-emperor, John II.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /Roman-Coins.asp?e=Alexius_I&par=883&pos=1&target=99 (362 words)

	Byzantine Glory : History :: Alexius I and the First Crusade 1071
		Alexius was tactful in his dealings with the pope and ready to discuss the differences between the churches.
		Alexius reconstituted the army and re-created the fleet, but only by means of stabilizing the gold coinage at one-third of its original value and by imposing a number of supplementary taxes.
		Alexius promoted an alternative source of native manpower by extending the system of granting estates in pronoia (by favour of the emperor) and tying the grant to the military obligation.
	neobyzantine.org /byzantium/history/periods/history_alexius_crusades.php (1141 words)

	Alexios I Komnenos Summary
		Before Alexius died on Aug. 16, 1118, he was able to make a clear transfer of power to his son, John II Comnenus, who was to prove perhaps the most noble and admirable sovereign of the entire dynasty.
		Alexios I Komnenos or Alexius I Comnenus (Greek: Αλέξιος Α' Κομνηνός, Alexios I Komnēnos) (1048–August 15, 1118), Byzantine emperor (1081–1118), was the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos (emperor 1057–1059), being the third son of that emperor's brother John Komnenos.
		Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexius' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.
	www.bookrags.com /Alexios_I_Komnenos (2440 words)

	Alexius I Comnenus
		Alexius I (1048-1118), Byzantine emperor (1081-1118), was the third son of John Comnenus, nephew of Isaac I Comnenus (emperor 1057-1059).
		His father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081.
		The success of the Comneni roused the jealousy of Botaniates and his ministers, and the Comneni were almost compelled to take up arms in self- defence.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alexius_I_Comnenus.html (377 words)

	33rd Generation (cont.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		BIOGRAPHY: Alexius I Comnenus was the Byzantine emperor (from 1081to 1118) at the time of the First Crusade, who founded the Comnenian dynasty and partially restored the strength of the empire after its defeats by the Normans and Turks in the 11th century.
		But judgments of Alexius must be tempered by allowing for the extent to which he was handicapped by the inherited internal weaknesses of the Byzantine state and, even more, by the series of crises precipitated by the western European crusaders from 1097 onward.
		Alexius died in August 1118, and Irene, frustrated in her attempts to deprive John of the throne, retired to a monastery that she had previously founded in Constantinople.
	www.boazfamilytree.com /edebeauchamp/aqwg61.htm (1726 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica Australia -
		Alexius was the son of Manuel I Comnenus and Maria, daughter of Raymond, prince of Antioch.
		Alexius was the son of Emperor Isaac II.
		Byzantine emperor in 1204, son-in-law of Alexius III Angelus.
	www.britannica.com.au /britannica_browse/a/a33.html (1555 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Alexius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alexius I (Alexius Comnenus), 1048-1118, Byzantine emperor (1081-1118).
		Alexius II (Alexius Comnenus), 1168-83, Byzantine emperor (1180-83), son and successor of Manuel I. His mother, Mary of Antioch, who was regent for him, alienated the population by favoring the Latin element in Constantinople.
		The great grandson of Alexius I, he was proclaimed emperor by the mob that had killed the unpopular Andronicus I. Isaac repulsed (1185) an invasion by the Normans under William II of Sicily but was unable to suppress the rebellious
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Alexius (602 words)

	Alexius I Comnenus Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alexius I (1048 - August 15, 1118), Byzantine emperor (1081-1118), was the third son of John Comnenus, nephew of Isaac I Comnenus (emperor 1057-1059).
		Botaniates was forced to abdicate and retire to a monastery, and Isaac declined the crown in favour of his younger brother Alexius, who then became emperor at the age of 33.
		The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when Alexius did not help them during the siege of Antioch; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexius, but agreed to become Alexius' vassal under the Treaty of Devol in 1108.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Alexius_I_Comnenus.html (520 words)

	comnena
		Anna Comnena (1083-1155?) was the daughter of Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium, and Irene Ducas, daughter of Maria of Bulgaria.
		Alexius initiated a brilliant recovery from this situation, bringing disaffected nobles back to his side, building churches, instituting monetary reform, negotiating various successful treaties, and carrying out many battles on land and sea.
		As Alexius finally successfully pulls his empire together, he signs with the Sultan of the Seljuk Turks a treaty setting the boundaries between Turks and Greeks as they were at the height of the Byzantine empire.
	www.humanistictexts.org /comnena.htm (7960 words)

	Alexius I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexios I Komnenos or Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 1081–1118
		Alexios I Megas Komnenos or Alexius I Megas Comnenus, great-great-grandson of the above, Emperor of Trebizond 1204–1222
		Patriarch Alexius I, 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexius_I (109 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Alexius
		This process was facilitated by the fact that according to the earlier Syriac legend of the Saint, the "Man of God," of Edessa (identical with St. Alexius) was a native of Rome.
		Although in this latter document the name of Alexius is not mentioned, he is manifestly the same as the "Man of God" of whom this earlier Syriac legend relates that he lived in Edessa during the episcopate of Bishop Rabula (412-435) as a poor beggar, and solicited alms at the church door.
		Alexius and Boniface on the Aventine has been renovated in modern times but several medieval monuments are still preserved there.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01307b.htm (861 words)

	Alexius III Angelus Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alexius, son of the deposed Isaac, escaped from Constantinople and appealed to the crusaders, promising as a crowning bribe to heal the schism of East and West if they would help him to depose his uncle.
		The crusaders, whose objective had been Egypt, were persuaded to set their course for Constantinople, before which they appeared in June 1203, proclaiming Alexius as emperor Alexius IV and summoning the capital to depose his uncle.
		Alexius, joined by Kay Khusrau I, the sultan of Rüm (also called the sultan of Iconium or Konya), now demanded the crown of Lascaris, and on his refusal marched against him.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Alexius_III_Angelus.html (487 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR Agnes of France
		Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus, was twelve at her marriage, and empress before she was fifteen; the Byzantine princess Theodora, Manuel's niece, was in her thirteenth year when she married Baldwin III of Jerusalem; and Margaret-Maria of Hungary married Isaac II Angelus at the age of nine.
		Theodore's mother was one of the daughters of Manuel's sister Eudocia and Theodore Vatatzes, and thus a cousin of Alexius II.
		Alexius' head was cut off and brought to Isaac in triumph, and Choniates praises the restraint of the widow when shown the severed head and remarks that Manuel had praised her as the 'flower of his family'.
	www.roman-emperors.org /aggiefran.htm (2464 words)

	Lecture 25: The Holy Crusades
		In 1081, and amid disorder, palace intrigue and the capital in danger, the general Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118) came to the Byzantine throne.
		The German king, Philip of Swabia proposed that the massed armies escort Alexius, a prince with a strong claim to the throne, to Constantinople and enthrone him.
		Convinced that Alexius IV could not make peace with the crusaders, a faction of senators, clergy and the populace deposed Alexius, who was later murdered in prison by yet another usurper.
	historyguide.org /ancient/lecture25b.html (4180 words)

	Alexius I — FactMonster.com
		At the same time as Alexius was seeking aid from the West against the Turks, the First Crusade (see
		The last years of Alexius' reign were consumed by fresh struggles with the Turks and by the intrigues of his daughter
		Comnenus - Comnenus Comnenus, family name of several Byzantine emperors—Isaac I, Alexius I, John II,...
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0803263 (372 words)

	Alexius I
		With the steady and imminent collapse of the reign of Nicephorus III came the big break for Alexius, the rising star of a new military genius.
		Alexius found it trivially easy to assume the throne and take control of an empire rapidly slipping into oblivion.
		Alexius did what he could to control the negative effects of the unwelcome "friends" of the cause noting all the meanwhile that the conquests of the crusaders did not benefit them in any way but rather served to further weaken the Byzantines politically and financially.
	www.dirtyoldcoins.com /gandinga/id/alexius1.htm (819 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR Alexius II Comnenus
		Alexius was born on 14 September 1169 and crowned co-emperor in 1171.
		The sentence was commuted to death, the decree affirmed by the signature of the emperor Alexius himself.
		Alexius' body was decapitated and while the head was being displayed to Andronicus, the remainder was being thrown into the sea.
	www.roman-emperors.org /alexiicom.htm (2527 words)

	Emperor Alexius - Ancient Roman Empire Forums
		Turns out, Alexius was only asking for 500 of the Western's best knights, but rather he got 60,000 total Crusaders at the gates of Constantinople that could storm his city and take it over easily.
		Sure Alexius was smart, but what he forgot was when the Crusaders conquered the cities, how would he control them when they had their own resources from the cities conquered.
		The problem is that Alexius was not particularly inspired in his rebuilding of the Byzantine Empire; he only attempted to rebuild it, when it also needed restructuring.
	www.unrv.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=2455 (677 words)

	The New Yorker : critics : books
		News of their difficulty spread quickly to the courts of Europe, and reached Alexius Angelos, the crown prince of Constantinople, who at that time was living in exile in the West.
		If they did so, furthermore, Prince Alexius would pay them two hundred thousand silver marks, provision the entire army, provide ten thousand men to go with them to Egypt (this was another of their planned side trips), and, for as long as he lived, protect Frankish possessions in the East.
		Alexius, who now arrived in person, was taken on board, and the Crusaders, with stops at various Byzantine ports to demand the people’s allegiance and make off with their food supplies, proceeded to Constantinople.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/?041213crbo_books (4737 words)

	The Fifth HOPE
		Alexius kept everything neat, mostly because he packs light when he travels.
		Alexius Pendragon and Archimedes in the public cluster on Saturday night.
		Alexius got a picture of Hairball taking a picture of me in the public cluster.
	drwho.virtadpt.net /pictures/h2k4 (1556 words)

	First Crusade
		But while Alexius was keen to secure Constantinople’s eastern frontiers and eager to hire Western mercenaries in order to achieve such an objective, he never envisaged that his counterparts in the West would launch anything like a huge military crusade to remove the infidel from the Holy Land.
		Alexius managed to avoid granting this ambitious request by insinuating that such a move was far too premature.
		Indeed, that Alexius sought to use the crusaders as mere pawns in his efforts to rebuild a shrinking empire is best demonstrated by the fact that, in May 1097, the Anatolian Turkish capital at Nicæa chose to surrender to the Byzantines rather than to the crusaders themselves (thus depriving them of the spoils of war).
	www.barnesreview.org /html/first_crusade.html (2451 words)

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