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From: Chris Bennett< >
Subject: Re: DFA - another possibility?
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 17:53:36 -0800


> Rafal Prinke <> wrote:
<snip -- a fascinating discussion I have arrived in the middle of thanks
to my GD news provider...> >
> > Alexios Komnenos
> > b. 1048/57 d. 1118
> > emp. 1081-1118
> > _______________________I___________________________________
> > I I I
> >Ioannes II K. Isaakios K. Andronikos K.
> >b. 1087 d. 1143 b. aft. 16.01.1093 b. 1090 d.
1130/31
> >emp. 1118-1143 d. aft. 1152 sebastokrator
> >m. 1104/05 m. NN m. Eirene dau. of
> >Piroska=Eirene I Volodar d. of
> >of Hungary I Przemysl
> > I _______I_______________
> > I I I
> >Alexios K. Ioannes K. Andronikos I K.
> >b. 1106 d.1142 Tzelepes b. 1123/24 d. 1185
> >m. 1) 1122 a Mohammedan emp. 1183-1185
> >Dobroniega=Eupraxia and scholar m. 1) N Paleologa
> >of Kiev m. 2) 1183 Agnes of
France
> >m. 2) Kata=Eirene of Alania, I
> >dau. of David II the Builder I
> >king of Georgia I
> > Manuel K.
> > b. bef. 1152
> > m. N dau. of David IV
> > king of Georgia
<snip>
> >The fact that one of Isaakios's sons (shown above for this purpose)
> >became a Mohammedan might suggest his mother was one, too - but that
> >is speculation at this point.
<snip>

Nope, he fled to the Seljuks at one point and converted. I don't have the
details to hand, but the story is actually mentioned somewhere in Gibbon,
which is where I first encountered it, and I have seen a more detailed
account, I think in a history of the Seljuks. Sorry I can't be more
precise, but it would take some time to backtrack through my notes on this
one and I don't have the time right now

-- CHris

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