Comnenus

Andronicus, the younger brother of John, son of Isaac, and grandson of Alexius Comnenus, is one of the most conspicuous characters of the age; and his genuine adventures might form the subject of a very singular romance.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

They bore an appeal from the Greek Christian Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, a ruler whose astute and assertive governance had arrested decades of internal decline within the great eastern empire.

'The Crusades' 2010

They bore an appeal from the Greek Christian Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, a ruler whose astute and assertive governance had arrested decades of internal decline within the great eastern empire.

'The Crusades' 2010

They bore an appeal from the Greek Christian Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, a ruler whose astute and assertive governance had arrested decades of internal decline within the great eastern empire.

'The Crusades' 2010

Paragraph 201 - This year [Nicephorus III] Botaneiates was made a monk and Alexius [I Comnenus] was made emperor.

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Career of Robert Guiscard, according to the Annales Lupi Protospatharii 2009

Comnenus — — he is willing to discharge, at the highest cost, such obligations as are incurred to men like this Hereward; and, believe me, I think that I see the wily despot shrug his shoulders in derision, when one morning he is saluted with the news of a battle in Palestine lost by the crusaders in which his old acquaintance has fallen a dead man.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Hereward was apt, it must be owned, to think too little of these distinctions; while he had at least a sufficient tendency to think enough of the power and wealth of the Greek empire which he served, — of the dignity inherent in Alexius Comnenus, and which he was also disposed to grant to the Grecian officers, who, under the Emperor, commanded his own corps, and particularly to Achilles Tatius.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

The conquests made in France and Britain by these wild sea-kings, as they were called, have obscured the remembrance of other northern champions, who, long before the time of Comnenus, made excursions as far as Constantinople, and witnessed with their own eyes the wealth and the weakness of the Grecian empire itself.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Comnenus does not, without alarm, descend into those awful dungeons — which his predecessors built for men, even when his intentions are innocent, and free from harm. —

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Comnenus shall display its wonders, and the feeble eyes of these Franks shall be altogether dazzled by the splendour of the empire.

Count Robert of Paris 2008