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	John II Comnenus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John married Piroska of Hungary, daughter of King Ladislaus I of Hungary.
		John was accidentally poisoned by his own arrow during a wild-boar hunt on Mount Taurus, on April 8, 1143.
		John married Piroska in 1104; the marriage was intended as compensation for the loss of some territories to King Coloman of Hungary.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_II_Comnenus (420 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR John II Comnenus, Emperor of Cyprus
		Accordingly, on the death of King László I of Hungary, László's elder son Stephen II succeeded to the throne, and the younger, Álmos, sought refuge at the Byzantine court.
		John was delayed from marching immediately to its rescue due to the death of his wife (Cinnamus[[12]]).
		John's sojourn in Byzantium was brief, for, despite illness, he needed to go to the rescue of Lopadium in Mysia (spring 1139), and the regions of the Sangarius river.
	www.roman-emperors.org /johncomn.htm (3157 words)

	John II Comnenus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mosaic of John II John II Comnenus (September 13, 1087 - April 8, 1143) was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143.
		Also known as Kaloioannes (John the Beautiful), he was the eldest son of the emperor Alexius, whom he succeeded in 1118.
		John married, daughter of King Ladislaus I of Hungary, in 1104.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/John_II_Comnenus (401 words)

	Manuel I Comnenus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the fourth son of John II Comnenus and Piroska, daughter of King Ladislaus I of Hungary.
		In the same year the emperor made war upon Roger II of Sicily, whose fleet captured Corfu and plundered the Greek towns, but in 1148 was defeated with the help of the Venetians.
		On September 17, 1176 Manuel was decisively defeated by Kilij Arslan II in the pass of Myriokephalon, where he allowed himself to be surprised in line of march.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manuel_I_Comnenus (984 words)

	Encyclopedia: John II Comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mosaic of John II Comnenus This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
		Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus 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).
		Crusades Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus 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).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-II-Comnenus (1189 words)

	31st Generation (cont.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ingelbert de Carinthia II, Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Austria was born circa 1065 in Kärnten, Bundesland Niederösterreich, Austria.
		John Comnenus II, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire [scrapbook] was born 1088.
		BIOGRAPHY: John II Comnenus was the Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143 whose reign was characterized by unremitting attempts to reconquer all important Byzantine territory lost to the Arabs, Turks, and Christian crusaders.
	www.boazfamilytree.com /gneville/aqwg37.htm (2228 words)

	JOHN II. (EAST ROMAN EMPEROR) - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN II. (EAST ROMAN EMPEROR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The news of the pope's escape was received at Constance with an extraordinary outburst of rage, and led to the subversive decrees of the 4th and 5th sessions, which proclaimed the superiority of the council over the pope.
		John was brought back to Freiburg (April 27), and there in vain attempted to appease the wrath which he had aroused by more or less vague promises of resignation.
		JOHN I. (925-976), surnamed Tzimisces, East Roman emperor was born of a distinguished Cappadocian family.
	84.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOHN_II_EAST_ROMAN_EMPEROR_.htm (1216 words)

	Hotels in Turkey \| Hotels in Istanbul \| Blue Voyage Yachting and Cabin Charters \| Mosaic of the Comnenus
		The mosaics of the Comnenus, are located on the eastern wall of the southern gallery in the upper floor.
		On this panel, Mary is depicted in the middle, flanked by Emperor John II Comnenus and his wife Irene, of Hungarian origin.
		John II Comnenus, who is one of the best emperors in Byzantine history, is depicted as a dignified person on these mosaics.
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	Comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Comnenus dynasty of Byzantine emperors was founded by Isaac I Comnenus, a Stratopedarch of the East under Michael VI.
		The Comnenus dynasty was very much involved in crusader affairs, and also intermarried with the reigning families of the Principality of Antioch and the Kingdom of Jerusalem - Theodora Comnena, 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.
	www.1bx.com /en/Komnenos.htm (608 words)

	Comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus The Comnenus family was an important family in the history of the Byzantine Empire.
		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.
		Thereafter the Comnenus dynasty fell into conspiracies and plots like many of their ancestors; Alexius II ruled for three years and his successor Andronicus I ruled for two, overthrown by the Angelus family under Isaac I. The Angeli were overthrown during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, by a relative from the Ducas family.
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	Trabzon
		Alexius I, a grandson of Byzantine emperor Andronicus I Comnenus, made Trebizond the seat of an empire, and because of this connection the polity was sometimes referred to as the Comnenan Empire.
		Sultan Murad II of the Ottoman Empire first attempted to take the capital by sea in 1442, but high surf made the landings difficult and the attempt was repulsed.
		While Mehmed II was away laying siege to Belgrade in 1456, the Ottoman governor of Amaseia attacked Trebizond, and while he was defeated, he took many prisoners and extracted a heavy tribute.
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	John II Comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Comnena, Anna Byzantine historian, eldest daughter of Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of Constantinople (1081-1118).
		Address at the Tomb of the Blessed John of Dukla Speech by Pope John Paul II, the day before John of Dukla was canonized.
		John Ruskin Papers at John Rylands University Library, Manchester The manuscript collection comprises over 2,000 items relating to John Ruskin (1819-1900), his work and his contemporaries.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-John_II_Comnenus.html (524 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Comnenus
		Comnenus, family of rulers of the Byzantine and Trabzon empires.
		The Byzantine dynasty began with the accession of Isaac I Comnenus (1005?-1061) in...
		The son of Emperor Alexius I, John continued his father's policies of granting land in...
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	Maria Comnena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was the daughter of Ioannes Comnenus, sometime Byzantine dux in Cyprus, and Maria Taronitissa, a descendant of the ancient Armenian kings.
		As the grandmother of Alice of Champagne (Isabella's daughter by her second husband, Henry II of Champagne), Maria conducted the marriage negotiations with Cyprus in 1208 – Alice was to marry Hugh I of Cyprus.
		Another Maria Comnena was the daughter of Isaakios Comnenus, himself the son of the Emperor John II Comnenus.
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	Alexius I Comnenus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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' involvement with Maria continued and shortly after his daughter Anna Comnena was born, she was betrothed to Constantine Ducas and moved to live at the Mangana Palace with him and Maria.
		The situation however changed drastically when John II Comnenus was born: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother, Constantine's status as heir was terminated and Alexius became estranged with Maria, now stripped of her imperial title.
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	Pantocrator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The founding of the monastery is attributed to the Emperor John II Comnenus (1118-1143).
		John Cinnamus and other historians relate that the Empress Irene, wife of John II Comnenus, took an active interest in the construction, organization and functioning of the monastic complex.
		Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180), who succeeded his father John, brought from Ephesus the marblc slab believed to have been the Stone of Unction, on which Christ's body had been laid out by Joseph and Nicodemus to be anointed before the entombment.
	www.patriarchate.org /ecumenical_patriarchate/chapter_4/html/pantocrator.html (1227 words)

	John II on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(kŏmnē´nes) (John Comnenus), 1088-1143, Byzantine emperor (1118-43), son and successor of Alexius I. He was crowned despite the intrigues of his sister, Anna Comnena, and of his mother, Irene.
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	John biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John the Apostle, to whom the Gospel of John is attributed
		John the Evangelist, traditionally identified with the apostle, and to whom the books 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Revelation are attributed.
		The john is also a nickname for the toilet, perhaps after the name of Sir John Harington who invented it.
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	Encyclopedia: Manuel I Comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		Alexius II Comnenus (1167-1183), Byzantine emperor (1180-1183), was the son of emperor Manuel I Comnenus and Maria, daughter of Raymund, prince of Antioch, and was born at Constantinople on September 10, 1167.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Manuel-I-Comnenus (2926 words)

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		He negotiated unsuccessfully with the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus II Phocas for an alliance between the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires, but was able to arrange a marriage between his son Otto II and Theophano, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Romanus II.
		Rudolf II (1552-1612), Holy Roman emperor (1576-1612), king of Hungary (1572-1608), and king of Bohemia (1575-1611), born in Vienna, the son and successor of Emperor Maximilian II.
		Son of John III Ducas and grandson of Theodore I Lascaris; renewed alliance with Seljuq sultan of Rum; repulsed Bulgarians (1255-56); able ruler and a good soldier; at death was waging war against Nicephorus of Epirus; well educated and an author of many works.
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	John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John the Apostle, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus.
		John the Evangelist, to whom the Gospel of John is attributed, often along with 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Revelation.
		A Dear John letter is a correspondence in which a woman informs her fiancé or boyfriend of her intention to sever their romantic relationship, typically in situations where the man is stationed, as with the military, in a distant location for a period of time.
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	Alexius I Comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alexius I (1048 - August15, 1118), Byzantineemperor (1081 - 1118), was the third son of JohnComnenus, 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 familiesbetween 1059 and 1081.
		He had next to repel the invasions of Pechenegs and Cumans in Thrace, with whom the Manichaean sect of the Bogomils made common cause; and thirdly, he had to cope with the fast-growing powerof the Seljuk Turks in Asia Minor.
	www.therfcc.org /alexius-i-comnenus-160546.html (521 words)

	John II Comnenus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Comnenus also spelled Komnenos Byzantine emperor (1118–43) whose reign was characterized by unremitting attempts to reconquer all important Byzantine territory lost to the Arabs, Turks, and Christian Crusaders.
		John Paul II made extraordinary efforts to reach out to people around the world, to both Roman Catholics and those of other faiths.
		Although U.S. political leader and diplomat Adlai E. Stevenson II helped found the United Nations (UN), where he served as chief United States delegate from 1961 to 1965, he tends to be remembered by his countrymen as the eloquent but unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1952 and 1956.
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	Manuel I Comnenus (1122-1180) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Comnenus (1088-1143) (reigned 1118–43) and the Hungarian princess Irene, Manuel transformed the austere, conservative court of his father into a gay setting for tournaments and festivities imported from medieval western Europe.
		Manuel devoted himself to affairs in the West at the beginning of his reign, practically ignoring the growing Turkish threat on the plains of Anatolia.
		When Roger II died in 1154, Manuel sent a fleet to attack Ancona (1155), capturing much of the region of Apulia.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/EmperorManuel-IComnenus/EmperorManuel-IComnenus.html (395 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR Alexius II Comnenus
		However, Nicaea in Bithynia refused to submit, and John Ducas and the Grand Domestic John Comnenus were entrusted with her defence by the regency government.
		Andronicus Angelus (father of the future emperors Isaac II and Alexius III) marched out from Nicomedia and fought with Andronicus Comnenus at the village of Charax, to be roundly defeated in spite of his superior numbers.
		In the meantime the sultan of Konya, Kilidj II Arslan, seized the opportunity to capture Sozopolis in Phrygia, with the surrounding towns, and John Comnenus Vatatzes, who was residing in Philadelphia, rebelled against the new régime.
	www.roman-emperors.org /alexiicom.htm (2527 words)

	Manuel I Comnenus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was the fourth of John II Comnenus.
		Having distinguished himself in his father's war the Seljuk Turks he was nominated emperor in preference his elder surviving brother.
		In the same year the emperor made upon Roger II of Sicily whose fleet captured Corfu and plundered the Greek towns but 1148 was defeated with the help of Venetians.
	www.freeglossary.com /Manuel_I_Comnenus (955 words)

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