{"slug": "manuel-i-komnenos", "label": "Manuel I Komnenos", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_I_Komnenos", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41610", "qid": "Q41610", "description": "Byzantine Emperor", "entries": 21, "years": 21, "span": [1118, 1182], "span_label": ["1118 CE", "1182 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 10}, {"slug": "armenian-kingdom-of-cilicia", "label": "Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dardanelles", "label": "Dardanelles", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "palestine-region", "label": "Palestine (region)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cyprus", "label": "Cyprus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "republic-of-venice", "label": "Republic of Venice", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-sicily", "label": "Kingdom of Sicily", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "egypt-in-the-middle-ages", "label": "Egypt in the Middle Ages", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-jerusalem", "label": "Kingdom of Jerusalem", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "raymond-of-poitiers", "label": "Raymond of Poitiers", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1118, "year_label": "1118 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1180)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365269195#Births", "title": "1118", "revid": 1365269195, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1143, "year_label": "1143 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – Emperor John II Komnenos Komnenos dies of a poisoned arrow wound while hunting wild boar on Mount Taurus in Cilicia. He is succeeded by his 24-year-old son Manuel I, who is chosen as his successor, in preference to his elder surviving brother Isaac. Manuel dispatches John Axouchos, his commander-in-chief (megas domestikos), to Constantinople ahead of him – with orders to arrest Isaac in the Great Palace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337864253#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1143", "revid": 1337864253, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1145, "year_label": "1145 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Raymond of Poitiers, prince of Antioch, travels to Constantinople to ask Emperor Manuel I Komnenos for help to support his campaign against the Seljuks. When he arrives, Raymond is forced to accept the suzerainty of the Byzantine Empire. Manuel treats him graciously, gives him gifts and promises him a money subsidy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362160818#Levant", "title": "1145", "revid": 1362160818, "section": "Events › By place › Levant"}}, {"year": 1147, "year_label": "1147 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 7 – The German crusaders suffer a natural disaster near Constantinople, when part of their encampment is swept away by a flash flood with considerable loss of life. Emperor Manuel I Komnenos orders the Crusaders to cross to Asia Minor by the Hellespont. Conrad III ignores the advice of Manuel and after some minor clashes with the Byzantines, pushes towards Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362163362#Second_Crusade", "title": "1147", "revid": 1362163362, "section": "Events › By place › Second Crusade"}}, {"year": 1148, "year_label": "1148 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – King Conrad III recovers from his wounds and leaves Constantinople with his household. He is well supplied with money by Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and uses these funds to recruit pilgrims to augment the forces that remain to him. Conrad and his re-equipped Crusaders sail with a Byzantine fleet to Palestine. The fleet is scattered by storms and lands in different ports.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362156256#Second_Crusade", "title": "1148", "revid": 1362156256, "section": "Events › By place › Second Crusade"}}, {"year": 1149, "year_label": "1149 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Emperor Manuel I Komnenos recovers Corfu with the help of the Venetians, who defeat the Sicilian fleet. During the three-month siege, Byzantine admiral Stephen Kontostephanos is killed by a stone thrown by a catapult. Manuel prepares an offensive against the Normans; King Roger II sends a fleet (some 40 ships) under George of Antioch, to pillage the suburbs of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369184526#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1149", "revid": 1369184526, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1150, "year_label": "1150 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Tara: The Byzantines defeat the Serbian-Hungarian army under Grdeša, count (župan) of Travunija, near the snow-covered Tara River. The Serbs are overpowered, and Grand Prince Uroš II is forced to accept the peace agreement made by Emperor Manuel I Komnenos. Uroš is succeeded by his brother Desa, who becomes co-ruler of the Principality of Serbia (until 1153).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362164290#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1150", "revid": 1362164290, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1153, "year_label": "1153 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Andronikos I Komnenos, son of Isaac Komnenos, is imprisoned in the imperial palace for conspiring against his uncle, Emperor Manuel I (Komenenos) at Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369184506#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1153", "revid": 1369184506, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1155, "year_label": "1155 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The city of Bari rebels against King William I (\"the Bad\") of Sicily and recognizes the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos as its overlord.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359485841#Europe", "title": "1155", "revid": 1359485841, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1158, "year_label": "1158 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Emperor Manuel I Komnenos sets out from Constantinople at the head of an expeditionary army. He marches to Cilicia; and while the main army follows the coast road eastwards Manuel hurries ahead with a force of only 500 cavalry. He manages to surprise Thoros II \"the Great\", lord of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, who participated in the attack on Cyprus in 1156. Thoros flees into the mountains and Cilicia is occupied by the Byzantines.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1301998061#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1158", "revid": 1301998061, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1161, "year_label": "1161 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – The widowed Emperor Manuel I Komnenos marries Maria of Antioch, aged 16, at Hagia Sophia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300116018#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1161", "revid": 1300116018, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1165, "year_label": "1165 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos makes an alliance with Venice against Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who takes an oath at the Diet of Würzburg to support Antipope Paschal III against Pope Alexander III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362483614#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1165", "revid": 1362483614, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1166, "year_label": "1166 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos asks Venice to help pay the costs of defending Sicily, whose Norman rulers have had good relations with Venice. Doge Vitale II Michiel refuses to pay the requested subsidy. Manuel begins to cultivate relationships with the main commercial rivals of Venice: Genoa and Pisa. He grants them their own trade quarters in Constantinople, very near the Venetian settlements.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303964516#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1166", "revid": 1303964516, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1167, "year_label": "1167 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 8", "text": "July 8 – Battle of Sirmium: Byzantine forces (15,000 men) under General Andronikos Kontostephanos defeat the Hungarians at Sirmium. Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos) consolidates his control over the western Balkans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361983030#Europe", "title": "1167", "revid": 1361983030, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1168, "year_label": "1168 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Summer – King Amalric I of Jerusalem and Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos negotiate an alliance against Fatimid-Egypt. Archbishop William of Tyre is among the ambassadors sent to Constantinople to finalize the treaty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362165077#Levant", "title": "1168", "revid": 1362165077, "section": "Events › By place › Levant"}}, {"year": 1169, "year_label": "1169 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Late Summer – Emperor Manuel I Komnenos sends an embassy to Egypt to demand tribute, and threatens the country with war when they refuse to pay it. The Byzantine fleet under Admiral Andronikos Kontostephanos sets out from the Hellespont; 60 war galleys are sent to Palestine with money for \"the knights of Jerusalem\". Andronikos with the rest of the fleet sails to Cyprus, at which he defeats a patrolling squadron of 6 Fatimid ships.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367314843#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1169", "revid": 1367314843, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1171, "year_label": "1171 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 12", "text": "March 12 – Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos) orders the arrest of all Venetians in his empire, and seizes their ships and goods.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362165802#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1171", "revid": 1362165802, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1176, "year_label": "1176 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos) assembles a Byzantine expeditionary force, and marches towards Iconium, the Seljuk capital. Meanwhile, hordes of Seljuk Turks destroy crops and poison water supplies, to make Manuel's march more difficult, and harass the Byzantine army, in order to force it into the Meander Valley. Kilij Arslan II, ruler of the Sultanate of Rum, hears of the expedition, and sends envoys to ask for peace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366532887#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1176", "revid": 1366532887, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1179, "year_label": "1179 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "A synod of thirty-three Armenian bishops in Hromkla discusses the conditions for union with the Byzantine Church and sends a profession of faith to emperor Manuel I Komnenos who dies before receiving it.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363299926#Religion", "title": "1179", "revid": 1363299926, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1180, "year_label": "1180 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 24", "text": "September 24 – Emperor Manuel I Komnenos dies in Constantinople after a 37-year reign. He is succeeded by his 11-year-old son, Alexios II Komnenos, who will reign briefly as emperor of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of his mother, Maria of Antioch. Maria assumes power as regent (until 1183) and takes as her advisor and lover, Alexios Komnenos (protosebastos), a nephew of Manuel I, which causes scandal and unrest among the Byzantine populace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368649234#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1180", "revid": 1368649234, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1182, "year_label": "1182 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August", "text": "August – Andronikos Komnenos, a cousin of Maria's late husband, Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos), raises an army and enters the city, representing himself as the 'protector' of Alexios. He is proclaimed as co-emperor under the name Andronikos I, and has Maria imprisoned and later condemned to be strangled – forcing a signature from Alexios to put his mother to death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362172586#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1182", "revid": 1362172586, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}