Certainty: 2 Violent quarrel among Komnenian family members at Metabole
In a meeting of the inner circle of the Komnenian family at Metabole, Ioannes Axouch made a speech at dinner contrasting Ioannes II and Manuel I. [Axouch is not directly given a urname, but a good case has been made that it was he.] Against the usual pattern of encomia, the dead father was given preference over his living son. Manuel, who was strong in filial piety, was not at all annoyed at the preference, but did feel that some particular criticisms of himself were too biting. They were taken up by Manuel's brother Isaakios, who exaggerated them still further. Andronikos, the future emperor, at this point insulted Isaakios, who in his usual irascible way tried to decapitate Andronikos. The blow might have succeeded had not Ioannes Doukas [probably the son of Anna Komnene] diverted it with his riding-crop on to Andronikos' jaw, with the help of Manuel I himself, who was slightly wounded and left with a small scar on his wrist. As a result, Isaakios was banished from the court for some days, while Axouch lost some of the seals which gave him power over finances
Certainty: 2 To reach safety, Manuel still had to fight a Turcoman tribe in the Maiander valley Certainty: 2
1152
Andronikos (I) was appointed supreme commander in Cilicia & Isauria: he attacked MopsuestiaCertainty: 2
Toros, besieged in Mopsuestia, made a sortie against Andronikos (I), who barely escaped to AntiochCertainty: 2
Andronikos (I) from Cilicia treacherously won over Baldwin III & Mas'ud of IkonionCertainty: 2
1153
Andronikos (I), after failure in Cilicia, was appointed doux of Nis & Branicevo, with Kastoria alsoCertainty: 2
From Nis, Andronikos (I) began to conspire with Frederick Barbarossa & Geza IICertainty: 2
1154
Andronikos (I) offered territory to Geza II in return for for help in rebellon against ManuelCertainty: 2
Certainty: 2 Georgios Tornikes wrote to Andronikos (I) at Branicevo in favour of his brother Demetrios
The future emperor Andronikos (I) was at Branicevo. There he received a letter from Georgios Tornikes, associated with his brother Leon Tornikes, in favour of a third brother Demetrios Tornikes, who was at the time in Branicevo. The letter asked Andronikos to continue his generous support of Demetrios
Andronikos (I) made two unsuccessful attempts to murder Manuel at PelagoniaCertainty: 2
Ioannes the protosebastos, gored by a boar, was treated by Manuel but obsessively hated by AndronikosCertainty: 2
1164
Andronikos (I) escaped from prison in Constantinople & fled to RussiaCertainty: 2
1165
Andronikos (I) returned from Russia & was accepted in time to fight in the siegeCertainty: 2
1166
Andronikos (I) was sent to solve problems in Cilicia, with extra revenue from Cypriot taxesCertainty: 2
Andronikos' life of seduction & sedition on Byzantium's eastern frontierCertainty: 2
1182
Murder of Maria of Antioch (widow of Manuel I) by Andronikos (I)Certainty: 2
1183
Accession of Andronikos I Komnenos, murder of Alexios II KomnenosCertainty: 2
1184
Dispute over property at Pouzouchia & donation of paroikoi by Andronikos I to Lavra's metochion of ProdromosCertainty: 3