Some Ruling Families of the Byzantine Empire

 

 

 

Part 2

 

 

The KOMNENEN, Part 2:

 

 

Manuel Komnenos [See Part 1] and his wife had issue:

 

1a) Alexios I Megas Komnenos, Emperor in Trapezunt (1182-1222); m.Theodora Axuchina

 

1b) Ioannes I, Emperor in Trapezunt, d.1238; m. NN

 

1c) Ioannikes, confined in a cloister

 

2b) Manuel I, Emperor in Trapezunt (1218-1263); m.1st ca 1235 Anna Xylaloe; m.2nd Rusadani of Iberia; m.3rd Eirene Syrikaina

 

1c) Andronikos II, Emperor in Trapezunt (1236-1266)

 

2c) Georgios, Emperor in Trapezunt 1266-80, then deposed

 

3c) Ioannes II, Emperor in Trapezunt 1280-97, b.1262/3, d.1297; m.1282 Eudokia Palaiologina (d.1301/2)

 

1d) Alexios II, Emperor in Trapezunt 1297-1330 (1283-1330); m.1300 Djiadjak, dau.of Bekha Jaqueli ata, Beg of Samatzkhe

 

1e) Andronikos III, Emperor in Trapezunt 1330-2, murdered 1332; m. NN

 

1f) [illegitimate] Manuel II, Emperor of Trapezunt for 8 months in 1332; b.1323/4, murdered 1333

 

2e) Basileios, Emperor in Trapezunt 1332-40, poisoned 1340; m.1st 1335 Eiren Palaiologina, Empress of Trapezunt 1340-1; m.2nd, bigamously, Eirene, a lady from Trapezunt, who was the mother of his children

 

1f) Alexeios Megas Komnenos (1337-ca 1349)

 

2f) Alexeios III, Emperor in Trapezunt 1349-90; (1338-1390); m.1351 Theodora Kantukuzene

 

1g) Basileios Megas Komnenos (1358-1377)

 

2g) Manuel III, Emperor in Trapezunt 1390-1416; (1364-1417); m.1st 1377 Gulkhan=Eudokia, dau.of King David VII of Georgia; m.2nd 1395 Anna Philanthropene

 

1h) Alexios IV, Emperor in Trapezunt 1417-29, murdered 1429; m.1395 Theodora Kantakuzene (d.1426)

 

1i) Ioannes IV, Emperor in Trapezunt 1429-59, had to pay tribute to Sultan Mohammed II, d.1460; m.1st ca 1426 a dau.of King Alexander of Iberia; m.2nd before 1438 a Turkish lady

 

1j) Theodora Megale Komnene, d.after 1478; m.1458 Uzun Hasan khan Aqqeyunlu

 

2i) Skantarios Megas Komnenos, d.1454/9; m.1437 Maria Gattilusia, who was taken into the harem of Sultan Mohammed II in 1461

 

1j) Alexios Megas Komnenos, b.1454, beheaded 1463

 

3i) David, Emperor in Trapezunt 1459-61, beheaded 1463; m.1st 1429 Maria, dau.of Pr Alexios of Gothia; m.2nd before 1447 Helene Kantakuzene

 

1-3j) sons, named Basileios, Manuel and Georgios, who were beheaded in 1463

 

4j) Anna Megale Komnene (1447-after 1463); m.1462 Zagan Paya

 

5j) a dau., m.Mamia de Gourie, from Georgia

 

4i) Maria Megale Komnene, d.of the Plague 1439; m.1427 Emperor Ioannes VIII of Byzantium

 

5i) Theodora Megale Komnene; m.ca 1422 Osman beg Kara Iluk, Khan of Aqqoyunlu

 

3g) Eudokia Megale Komnene; m.1st 1379 Ta Jeddin, emir of Limnia (d.1386); m.2nd Konstantinos Dragas, a Serb

 

4g) Maria Megale Komnene; m.Suleiman beg, Emir of Chalybia

 

5g) a dau., m.Mutakharten, Emir of Erzincan

 

6g) Anna Megale Komnene (1357-after 1406); m.1367 King Bagrat V of Georgia

 

7g) [illegitimate] Andronikos Megas Komnenos, b.1355, d.after being thrown from a tower 1376

 

8g) [illegitimate] Ioannes Megas Komnenos

 

3f) Maria Megale Komnene (1328-1408); m.1352 Fahreddin Kutlug beg, Khan of Aqqoyunlu

 

4f) Theodora Megale Komnene; m.after 29 Aug 1358 Hajj-Omar, Emir of Chalybia

 

3e) Michael Azachutlus Komnenos, murdered by his brother Andronikos 1330

 

4e) Georgios Achpugas Komnenos, mureder by his brother Andronikos 1330

 

5e) Anna Anachutlu Komnene, a nun, became Empress in Trapezunt 1341-2, strangled to death 1342

 

6e) Eudokia Komnene, may have m.Adil beg ibn Yakub Kandaride

 

2d) Michael Komnenos, Emperor in Trapezunt 1344-49 (1285-after 1355); m.a dau.of Konstantinos Akropolites

 

1e) Ioannes III Komnenos, Emperor in Trapezunt 1342-44; b.1321/2, d.1362

 

4c) Theodora Megale Komnene, a nun, became Empress in Trapezunt briefly in 1284-5, d.after 1285

 

5c) a dau., d.after 1280; m.1273 a noble in Georgia

 

3b) a dau., m.Andronikos I Gidos, Emperor in Trapezunt 1222-35

 

2a) David Komnenos, Lord of Heracleia and Paphlagonia (1184-1214)