Certainty: 2 Kaisar Ioannes Rogerios attempted a coup against Manuel I but was betrayed by his wife Certainty: 2
1146
Certainty: 2 Despite the death of his eldest sister Maria, Manuel fortified Melangeia, to stop Turkish attacks on Bithynia
Since Mas'ud of Ikonion was ravaging to the east of Byzantine territory, Manuel marched to Melangeia against him, attacking the Turks there. He took measures to defend and rebuild Melangeia, then returned to the capital, ill with pleurisy. His eldest sister Maria had fallen mortally ill while he was away. He cut short his participation in the work, but she was dead before he reached Constantinople, leaving Ioannes Rogerios Dalassenos as a widower
1147
Certainty: 3 A council in the Blachernai palace deposed the patriarch Kosmas II Certainty: 3
1148
Certainty: 2 Death of Manuel Anemas; consolation for his grieving widow Certainty: 2
1152
Certainty: 2 Manuel sent the kaisar Ioannes to woo Constance, princess of Antioch, but in vain Certainty: 2