Certainty: 3 Four meetings to set out & implement Alexios' report on Ioannes Italos
The trial of Ioannes Italos had begun at his own instigation, taken up by the patriarch Eustratios Garidas. But it soon took on a more serious dimension when it was interrupted by a violent popular demonstration against Italos, making Garidas pass the responsibility to Alexios I. The examination of Italos was then completed (it is unclear how far Garidas had reached), and Alexios issued a pittakion and a semeiosis detailing the results. Four further meetings are then referred to: a largely procedural meeting between imperial and patriarchal officials with a few metropolitans, already decribed, then three synodal sessions, on March 20, March 21 and April 11. Those recorded as attending these meetings are listed here. One or both of Alexios' reports seem to have been part of the agenda of the first and third of these meetings