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Andronicus Komnenos

Andronicus Komnenos

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Andronicus Komnenos (son of Dukas Alexios Angelos Megas Komnenos, III); died on 14 Mar 1376.

    Family/Spouse: Gulkhan von Georgien. Gulkhan (daughter of David von Georgien, IX and Sindukhtar) died on 2 May 1395. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Dukas Alexios Angelos Megas Komnenos, III
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    Dukas Alexios Angelos Megas Komnenos, III was born on 5 Oct 1338 (son of Basileios Megas Komnenos and Eirene); died on 20 Mar 1390.

    Notes:

    Dukas Komnenos
    Emperor in Trapezunt

    Children:
    1. 1. Andronicus Komnenos died on 14 Mar 1376.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Basileios Megas Komnenos (son of Alexios Palaiologos Megas Komnenos, II and Djiadjak); died on 6 Apr 1340.

    Notes:

    Emperor of Trebizond from August 1332 to his death in 1340. Basil was a younger son of Emperor Alexios II of Trebizond and his wife Djiadjak Jaqeli . When his elder brother Andronikos III assumed the throne in 1330 and killed two of his brothers (Michael and George), Basil managed to escape to Constantinople .
    After the death of Andronikos III, during the reign of his infant son, Manuel II , the pro-Byzantine party at Trebizond called Basil from Constantinople to take the throne. In August 1332 Manuel was deposed and intended for a monastery, while Basil was crowned emperor. Basil purged the court from his brother and nephew's supporters, but his new appointment of a megas doux, a certain John, revolted in favor of the deposed Manuel. The revolt was crushed and to prevent further trouble the child was murdered in 1333, probably on Basil's order.
    Instead of ending the factional strife, he actually encouraged it. Nobles throughout the Empire began to act as little princes, lording over their own estates, rapidly reducing the countryside to anarchy, while Basil himself continued apace making himself hated. The Scholarioi, the militia of capital, became so disaffected that he had to hire foreign bodyguards to protect his person, who rapidly made themselves and their master hated for their arrogance and corruption. Such was his unpopularity with the people of the city, that when a solar eclipse took place they took it for a sign of divine wrath and forced the emperor to seek refuge in the citadel and tried to pelt him with stones.
    In 1335 Basil formed a marriage alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos , whose illegitimate daughter Irene he married. Shortly afterwards relations between the two rapidly deteriorated. Basil took a mistress also named Irene, by whom he fathered four illegitimate children. Whether or not he was actually divorced from his wife remains uncertain, but there is an interesting letter from the Patriarch of Constantinople, John IV Calecas, to the metropolitan of the city at the time, probably the same Gregory that Andrew Libadenos makes note of circa 1336-1340 in his traveling narrative, reprimanding him and all the other ordained men at Trebizond for the wicked out of place act that they had allowed to take place to the injury of the holy canons. Calecas upbraids them and then at the end of his letter lays it upon them to fix this problem on the pain of alienating the main body of the Church. The local clergy, however, contented themselves with the pretence that they were actually honoring the legitimate empress in their services since they were honoring an Irene.
    The uneasy situation at the capital was exploited by the Turkmen , who attacked Trebizond but were repulsed.
    Basil died on April 6, 1340, apparently, poisoned by his legitimate wife, Irene Palaiologina, who quickly seized the throne.

    Basileios married Eirene. Eirene and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Eirene and died.

    Notes:

    Co-Regent in Trapezunt

    Children:
    1. Alexios Megas Komnenos was born in 1337; died about 1349.
    2. 2. Dukas Alexios Angelos Megas Komnenos, III was born on 5 Oct 1338; died on 20 Mar 1390.
    3. Maria Megas Komnenos was born in 1328; died in 1408.
    4. Theodora Megas Komnenos and died.
    5. Helena died in 1366.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Alexios Palaiologos Megas Komnenos, II was born in Aug 1283 (son of Ioannes Komnenos, II and Eudoka Palaiologina); and died.

    Notes:

    Emperor of Trebizond from 1297 to 1330. He was the elder son of John II and Eudokia Palaiologina , and also used the name Palaiologos.

    He ascended the throne at the age of 14 after the death of his father. He came under the care of his uncle, the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos . The latter wanted to marry his young ward to a daughter of the high court official Nikephoros Choumnos , but Alexios without asking for the permission married an Iberian princess, Djiadjak Jaqeli , the daughter of Bekha II Jaqeli, atabeg of Samtskhe , in c. 1300. Andronikos appealed to the Church to annul the marriage but the Patriarch refused to assist him, on the ground that the young man's wife was reported to be already pregnant. Alexios' mother Eudokia, who now returned to Trebizond on the pretext of inducing her son to dissolve the marriage, advised him to keep his Iberian wife.
    After freeing himself from the custody of Andronikos II, Alexios proved to be a skillful and energetic ruler, under whose reign Empire of Trebizond reached the climax of its prosperity.
    In 1301 or 1302 he defeated a Turkmen invasion, who after conquering province of Chalybia, had penetrated deep into Trebizond's territory to sack Kerasous , the second most important city of the Empire. He captured their general and built a fort overlooking the sea to secure his possession of the city.
    Another problem were the Genoese , who had established virtual economic monopoly in the Black Sea area since the treaty of Nymphaeum with Michael VIII Palaiologos in 1261. Their long established settlement at Daphnous, the coastal suburb to the east of Trebizond, grew larger and the Genoan merchants refuse to allow the emperor's customs officials to inspect their wares. After Alexios refused the Genoese demands for further concessions in 1306, they threatened to leave Trebizond altogether. When the emperor demanded that they pay dues for the goods they took with them, they refused, and he attacked them with his Georgian mercenaries. Although the emperor's troops were successful, the Genoese set fire to the suburbs of Trebizond and damaged much of their own and the citizens' property. Eventually the two parties made peace, confirmed in a surviving treaty from 1314 and another from 1316.
    This did not put a complete end to the tensions between the Genoese and the Emperor of Trebizond. So, in 1319 he concluded a treaty with the Venetians , the Genoans' main rivals, granting them the same privileges as the Genoans as long as they paid their dues.
    The troubles to the Empire came also from the pirates of the Emirate of Sinope , whose targets were Christian traders, including the Genoese. The pirates even ventured to attack Trebizond itself, looting the suburbs, so to protect his people from these raiders, Alexios built sea walls for the city's harbour in 1324. He had already organized a police force to guard the city at night more than a decade earlier.
    Like his father before him, also Alexios II was being persuaded by the Pope to convert to Catholicism. The letter was sent by John XXII in 1329, but five months later, however, on May 3 , 1330 , after 33 years of reign, the Emperor died and the throne passed to his eldest son, Andronikos .

    Alexios married Djiadjak. Djiadjak and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Djiadjak and died.

    Notes:

    of Samatzkhe

    Children:
    1. Andronikos III Megas Komnenos was born about 1310; died in 1332.
    2. 4. Basileios Megas Komnenos died on 6 Apr 1340.
    3. Michael Anachoutlous Megas Komnenos died in 1330.
    4. George Achpougas Megas Komnenos died in 1330.
    5. Anna Anachoutlou Megas Komnenos died in 1342.
    6. Eudokia Megas Komnenos and died.


Generation: 5

  1. 16.  Ioannes Komnenos, II was born about 1262-1263 (son of Manuel Megas Komnenos, I and Eirene Syrikaina); and died.

    Notes:

    Emperor of Trapezunt

    Ioannes married Eudoka Palaiologina in 1282. Eudoka (daughter of Michael Palaiologos, VIII and Theodora Palaiologina Batatzina Dukaina Komnene) died on 13 Dec 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 17.  Eudoka Palaiologina (daughter of Michael Palaiologos, VIII and Theodora Palaiologina Batatzina Dukaina Komnene); died on 13 Dec 1302.
    Children:
    1. 8. Alexios Palaiologos Megas Komnenos, II was born in Aug 1283; and died.


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