Manuel I Komnenos
Monarch
1118 – 1180
Who was Manuel I Komnenos?
Manuel I Komnenos was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean.
Eager to restore his empire to its past glories as the superpower of the Mediterranean world, Manuel pursued an energetic and ambitious foreign policy. In the process he made alliances with the Pope and the resurgent west, invaded the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, although unsuccessfully, adroitly managed the passage of the potentially dangerous Second Crusade through his empire, and established a Byzantine protectorate over the Crusader states of Outremer. Facing Muslim advances in the Holy Land, he made common cause with the Kingdom of Jerusalem and participated in a combined invasion of Fatimid Egypt. Manuel reshaped the political maps of the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean, placing the kingdoms of Hungary and Outremer under Byzantine hegemony and campaigning aggressively against his neighbours both in the west and in the east.
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- Born
- Nov 28, 1118
Constantinople - Parents
- Spouses
- Bertha of Sulzbach
(1146 - 1159) - Maria of Antioch
(1161 - )
- Bertha of Sulzbach
- Children
- Died
- Sep 24, 1180
Constantinople
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on July 23, 2013
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