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 | | Their daughter Theodora married into the Angelus family; Theodora's grandsons were the emperors Isaac II Angelus and Alexius III Angelus. |
 | | The Comnenus dynasty was very much involved in crusader affairs, and also intermarried with the royal families of the Principality of Antioch and the Kingdom of Jerusalem - Theodora, niece of Manuel I Comnenus, married Baldwin III of Jerusalem, and Maria, grand-niece of Manuel, married Amalric I of Jerusalem. |
 | | Remarkably, despite the general tendency for Byzantine emperors to be overthrown after a few years, Alexius ruled for 37, and his son John II ruled for 25, after uncovering a conspiracy against him by his sister, the chronicler Anna Comnena, and her husband Nicephorus Bryennius. |
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