Certainty: 3 Birth of Eudokia (daughter of Alexios I). Eudoxia - Eudokia, daughter of Alexios I was born on Sunday 14 January
Certainty: 3 Alexios & Anna Dalassene reinstated the previous tax regime on the Docheiariou estate at Satoubla . Alexios I, following a request from Docheiariou over the earlier annullment of the taxation provisions on its estate at Satoubla (those of Kontoleon and Kataphloron), sent a letter to Niketas Xiphilinos, krites and anagrapheus of Boleron, Strymon and Thessalonike, ordering him to reinstate the earlier tax regime. Anna Dalassene, also following a request from Docheiariou, ordered Niketas to accept the tax imposed earlier by Kontoleon and Kataphloron on its property at Perigardikeia (Chalkidike). Niketas copied and signed the imperial letters of Alexios I and Anna Dalassene on Perigardikeia and Satoubla, adding an act over recent additions to the property. The decree of Anna Dalassene was registred in the sekreton of the genikon by the protonobelissimos and logothetes of the sekreta
Certainty: 3 Alexios I exempted epoikoi of Patmos from strateia. Alexios I issued, signed in red ink and sealed in wax a decree ordering Christophoros Kopsenos to exempt from the strateia the epoikoi of Patmos, and to impose it instead on those living on the former properties of Christodoulos on Kos. The decree was sent to Christodoulos, passed from him to his associate the monk Gregorios, who brought it to Christophoros. Twelve names of epoikoi of Patmos were listed
Certainty: 3 Periorismos of the Leros properties which were granted to Christodoulos of Patmos. Ioannes Theologites established at the orders of Eustathios Charsianites a praktikon for the properties at Parthenion on Leros, disputed between the monks of Christodoulos and the local paroikoi
Certainty: 3 Patmos epoikoi exempted from strateia by anagrapheus of Kos Christophoros Kopsenos. Christophoros Kopsenos, the anagrapheus of Kos, was instructed by an imperial decree to exempt the epoikoi of Patmos from the strateia and to impose the strateia on those living on the former properties of Christodoulos on Kos. Twelve names of those exempted were listed
Certainty: 3 Alexios I issued a decree to return Xenophontos to its exiled hegoumenos Symeon. At the petition of Symeon/Stephanos, hegoumenos of Xenophontos, Alexios I ordered Paulos, hegoumenos of Docheiariou and protos of Athos, to restore the monastery of Xenophontos & its estates to Symeon. Alexios sent Theodoros Senachereim to oversee the matter. Xenophontos was compensated for loss of the metochion of Phalakrou by a grant of the monastery of Monoxylitou. The former monydrion of Christ the Saviour, which its founder Hilarion earlier gave to the central administration of Athos, was returned to Xenophontos under fixed conditions. The monastery of Prophet Daniel was made independent of Xenophontos, which also received two parcels of land, one making up for the loss of the proasteion of Kekaumenoi to Isaakios Komnenos, who also received the proasteion of Portarea from Esphigmenou. These agreements were confirmed at various points by Alexios I, Niketas Xiphilinos, krites & anagrapheus of Boleron, Strymon and Thessalonike, & his subordinate Eugenios kouboukleisios. The document detailing the return by Paulos to Symeon of the monastery of Xenophontos & its estates was signed by 15 hegoumenoi and senior Athonite monks, some called witnesses. Paulos the protos was ordered by Alexios I in a decree to readmit Symeon to Athos, to return to him the monastery and estates of Xenophontos, and to register its possessions with the emperor's envoy Theodoros Senachereim. Paulos summoned the monks and hegoumenoi, read out AlexiosÂ’ decree in the presence of Theodoros, then went to Xenophontos to restore monastery and properties to Symeon as its second founder
Certainty: 3 Praktikon & handover of Leros properties to Christodoulos of Patmos after settlement of dispute. The lands on Leros disputed between the local paroikoi and the monks of Christodoulos were measured and a praktikon was drawn by Ioannes Theologites, signed by 9 named witnesses
Certainty: 2 Tax due by Lavra reassessed by krites & anagrapheus of Boleron, Strymon & Thessalonike Niketas Xiphilinos. Niketas Xiphilinos, krites and anagrapheus of Boleron, Strymon and Thessalonike, was asked by Alexios I to calculate the fiscal charges of Lavra based on a rate of 1 nomisma per 535.5 modioi. As for the area of land to be taxed, Nikolaos II, the hegoumenos of Lavra, declared that his monastery owned 42,705 modioi of land according to the fiscal charges set by Xiphilinos' predecessor Andronikos (1047) and then by Ioannes Kataphloron, stategos and anagrapheus of Smolenoi, Thessalonike and Serres (1079), excluding the properties of Pallene (Kassandra), whose revenues were paid to Adrianos Komnenos, Alexios' brother. Xiphilinos was asked to leave the monastery the land included in the census of Andronikos, but to transfer to the fisc that added by Kataphloron
Certainty: 3 Basileios, metropolitan of Calabria, was disappointed by Urban II at the synod of Melfi.
Certainty: 3 Alexios I & the synod found no reason to exclude the pope from the diptychs, & restored him.
Certainty: 3 The synod of Constantinople reacted to a letter of Urban II.
Certainty: 3 Nikolaos III, patriarch of Constantinople, asked Urban II for a statement of faith. Nikolaos welcomed letters sent with ambassadors from Urban II, but indicated they had expressed doubts about Byzantine attitudes to westerners, for example whether the latter were barred from churches. Such rumours were spread by deceitful men. He reassured Urban they were untrue, and westerners could and would continue to worship as freely in "Greek" churches as "Greeks" in Italian churches. He committed himself to church unity, and reminded Urban of the old custom (begun by St Paul) of a new patriarch writing to his colleagues with an account of his appointment and a statement of faith for their approval. He asked Urban to follow this custom now: he offered his own messengers, Basileios of Calabria and Romanos of Rossano to convey the letter - or Urban might prefer carriers of his own. Basileios and Romanos were travelling in part to deliver Nikolaos' letter, but in part on their own account. Baslileios needed Urban's help to establish himself in the see to which he had been canonically appointed, while Romanos would provide his own information about what was being done by Latins in his see. Nikolaos ended by praying for God's aid for Urban
Certainty: 3 Chrysobull of Alexios I confirming ownership & exemptions of properties left by Leon Kephalas to his children. Leon Kephalas had administered his properties (Ta Adrinou, Ano, Chostiane, Mesolimna) wisely, and bequeathed them to his children (Nikephoros and others), who asked for confirmation by imperial chrysobull. Alexios I confirmed their ownership of the properties bequeathed by their father and the revenues derived from them
Certainty: 3 Alexios at Beroe met the count of Flanders returning from Jerusalem, who promised him 500 horsemen. While Alexios was at Beroe, he received Robert I of Flanders, who was returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Robert swore allegiance to Alexios, in the usual Latin way. He also promised to send him 500 horsemen as allies from Flanders
Certainty: 3 Chrysobull of Alexios I confirming tax obligations of Lavra following reassessment by Niketas Xiphilinos. Alexios I issued a chrysobull for the monastery of Lavra at the request of its hegoumenos Nikolaos II, confirming the fiscal charges of the monastery's properties as assessed in the praktikon of Niketas Xiphilinos and abolishing the additional tax imposed earlier by Ioannes Kataphloron
Certainty: 2 Neantzes defected to the Byzantines; Migidenos organised markets for local food. Just before one of the impermanent truces between Alexios and the Pechenegs, Neantzes deserted to the Byzantine side. Around the same time, Migidenos was sent to organise markets for the sale of local produce. [At a later, undated battle against the Pechenegs Migdenos' son charged too close, was pulled into the wagon circle by a woman wielding an iron hook, and was beheaded. The emperor ransomed the young man's head, but his father Migdenos committed suicide out of grief]
Certainty: 3 Basileios, metropolitan of Calabria, crossed to Dyrrachion, receiving a letter from Nikolaos III.
Certainty: 1 The Pechenegs reached (or captured ?) Philippopolis. Among the negative reports he received about the Pechenegs, perhaps the worst news was that they had reached (or captured ?) Philippopolis. He had inadequate forces to meet this threat: he realised that he would have to use cunning, skirmishing and ambush
Certainty: 1 Alexios planned a guerilla campaign, repeatedly forestalling Pecheneg moves. Alexios fought against the Pechenegs by seeking to anticipate where they wanted to be and occupying that site in advance, thus forestalling the enemies' capture of fortifications. Both he and the Pechenegs arrived at the same time at Kypsella. His mercenaries had not come, and the Pechenegs were very fast-moving and en route for the capital. He decided he had to make peace again, and the enemy agreed with his proposals