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 1087 - 1143 (55 years) Has 18 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
John Komnenos |
| Suffix |
II Emperor of the Byzantine Empire |
| Birth |
13 Sep 1087 |
Constantinopolis, Imperium Romanum  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
L1R3-1FF |
| Death |
8 Apr 1143 |
Cilicia, Imperium Romanum |
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| Person ID |
I8093 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Alexios Komnenos, I Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, b. Abt 1056, Constantinopolis, Imperium Romanum d. 15 Aug 1118, Monastery of Saint George of the Mangana, Mángana, Imperium Romanum (Age 62 years) |
| Mother |
Irène Doukas, b. Abt 1066, Constantinopolis, Imperium Romanum d. 19 Feb 1123 (Age 57 years) |
| Marriage |
1082 |
Constantinopolis, Imperium Romanum |
| Family ID |
F4958 |
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| Notes |
- John II Komnenos or Comnenus (13 September 1087 – 8 April 1143) was Byza n tine Emperor from 1118 to 1143. Also known as "John the Beautiful" or " Jo hn the Good" (Kaloïoannes), he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexio s I Ko mnenos and Irene Doukaina and the second emperor to rule during th e Komne nian restoration of the Byzantine Empire. John was a pious and de dicate d monarch who was determined to undo the damage his empire had suf fered f ollowing the battle of Manzikert, half a century earlier.
John has been assessed as the greatest of the Komnenian emperors. In t h e course of his twenty-five year reign, John made alliances with the Ho l y Roman Empire in the west, decisively defeated the Pechenegs, Hungaria n s and Serbs in the Balkans, and personally led numerous campaigns again s t the Turks in Asia Minor. John's campaigns fundamentally changed the b al ance of power in the east, forcing the Turks onto the defensive and re sto ring to the Byzantines many towns, fortresses and cities right acros s th e peninsula. In the southeast, John extended Byzantine control fro m the M aeander in the west all the way to Cilicia and Tarsus in the east . In a n effort to demonstrate the Byzantine ideal of the emperor's rol e as th e leader of the Christian world, John marched into Muslim Syria a t the he ad of the combined forces of Byzantium and the Crusader states ; yet despi te the great vigour with which he pressed the campaign, John' s hopes wer e disappointed by the evasiveness of his Crusader allies an d their reluct ance to fight alongside his forces. Also under John, the e mpire's populat ion recovered to about 10 million people.
Unfortunately, John's reign is less well recorded by contemporary or nea r -contemporary writers than those of either his father, Alexios I, or h i s son, Manuel I. In particular little is known of the history of John' s d omestic rule or policies.
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