Alexios I Komnenos

Alexios I Komnenos Greek: Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός, 1057 – 15 August 1118, Latinized Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. Although he was non the number one emperor of a Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos style came to full power to direct or setting and initiated a hereditary succession to the throne. Inheriting a collapsing empire in addition to faced with fixed warfare during his reign against both the Seljuq Turks in Asia Minor together with the Normans in the western Balkans, Alexios was experienced to curb the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery so-called as the Komnenian restoration. The basis for this recovery were various reforms initiated by Alexios. His appeals to Western Europe for guide against the Turks were also the catalyst that contributed to the convoking of the Crusades.

Family

By his marriage with Irene Doukaina, Alexios I had the coming after or as a total of. children:

Later Russian dominance also claim the existence of another daughter, Barbara, who supposedly married Grand Prince of Kiev Sviatopolk II Iziaslavich, but her existence is considered as a later invention by contemporary historians.