Certainty: 3 Death of empress Eirene Doukaina. The date is certain, the year is calculated on the assumption that a copyist has made a mistake in the indiction date. Other evidence suggests that she must have survived beyond 1130, but she was certainly dead by 1136. This was one of the many blows which struck the Komnenian house during the period. Her daughter Anna, engrossed in her philosophical studies, found extra strength in Christian belief to bear this loss
Certainty: 2 En route to Antioch, Fulk was diverted by Cecilia to rescue Pons. Fulk spent some time governing Jeusalem, but then was again summoned to Antioch to deal with a major Turkish invasion. However he was intercepted en route at Sidon by his half-sister Cecilia, who told him that 'Imad al-Din Zanki was besieging her husband Pons in the castle of Montferrand [it has been regarded as very unlikely that this was Zanki]. She demanded his intervention in a typically feminine way. He moved towards Montferrand to raise the siege, and the attackers withdrew
Certainty: 2 After making Zanki (?) withdraw, Fulk won a great victory over other invaders near Qinnasrin. Having relieved Montferrand, Fulk of Anjou paused at Harenc near the Turkish camp at Qinnasrin and then surprised and defeated the Turkish troops with rich booty
Certainty: 2 Fulk's successes against the Turks marginalised (& embittered) Alice at Antioch. Alice was embitterd by Fulk's repeated successes against Turkish invaders capped off by the victory at Qinnasrin. This led to her loss of all the advantages she had gained by her gifts and promises. She loathed Fulk and resented his presence at Antioch
Certainty: 2 Chastel Ernaut built by William the patriarch to protect pilgrims coming up from Jaffa. While king Fulk was engaged around Antioch, William the patriarch with the people of Jerusalem built Chastel Ernaut, on the road down to Lydda and the sea. Thus the journey up and down from Jaffa was made safer for pilgrims
Certainty: 2 In the triumph for Kastamon, only an icon of the Theotokos rode in the chariot. Ioannes II returned to the capital in triumph with many prisoners, and Theodoros Prodromos wrote a hexameter poem summing up all his successes against the Turks. Ioannes ordered the building of a silver-plated chariot with semi-precious stones, drawn by four white horses: it is carefully described. The people attended with great enthusiasm and in large numbers. There were purple cloths and fabric icons in the streets, with wooden platforms for spectators along the route. There were many encomia spoken in prose and verse, by Theodoros Prodromos among others. Ioannes walked in front with a cross to Hagia Sophia, his ministers holding the reins and his sons and close relations behind tending the chariot, in which there rode the icon of the Theotokos, to whom (and God) he ascribed his victories and gave thanks, before entering the palace
Certainty: 2 Lists of Ioannes II's victories in triumph ceremonies for capture of Kastamon. Laodikeia (1119), Sozopolis (1120), Pechenegs (1122), Serbian (1123), Hungarian (1127), Amorion (?), Lemnos (?), and now Kastamon (1132)
Certainty: 2 Melisende's fury over trial of Hugh terrorised Hugh's opponents; Fulk was reconciled to her. The scandal involving Hugh of Jaffa made queen Melisende angry with those who informed on him, and with Fulk himself. She resented the harm done to Hugh and the slur on her own character. Her enemies were afraid and kept out of sight for a time, and Fulk himself became devoted to pleasing her
Certainty: 2 Attempted assassination of Hugh of Jaffa in Jerusalem; Fulk denied complicity. While Hugh of Jaffa was awaiting a boat to go into exile in Italy, he was badly wounded in an assasination attack in a Jerusalem street. The attempted assassin, a Breton knight, claimed to have acted on his own initiative, to gain Fulk's favour, but all assumed that Fulk was more directly involved, and public opinion turned against him. However he arranged the Breton's execution by mutilation, which was completed without the man implicating him
Certainty: 2 Hugh of Jaffa was welcomed to exile in Apulia by Roger II, where he died soon after. Hugh, count of Jaffa, after surviving the attempt on his life in Jerusalem, went into exile in Apulia, where he was welcomed by Roger II. He was given the town of Gargano. But he died there shortly after without returning to the kingdom
Certainty: 2 The Danishmendid emir recaptured Kastamon while Ioannes II was ill in Constantinople. The defeated Danishmendid ruler of Kastamon besieged the city he had once ruled and captured it, slaughtering the Byzantine defenders. This demanded the reaction of Ioannes II, who was probably ill at the key moment
Certainty: 1 Death of Konstantinos Hagiotheodorites. Konstantinos Hagiotheodorites had died. This caused such great distress to Michael Italikos that even a letter of consolation from his brother gave only temporary relief, as he admitted in his reply
Certainty: 0 Michael Italikos wrote to the doctor & grammarian Leipsiotes, with an encomium. Michael Italikos wrote to the doctor & grammarian Leipsiotes, providing and encomium of both of his skills. It is unclear what Michael asks for at the end of the letter
Certainty: 0 Adrianos Komnenos separated from his wife & children, & became a monk. Adrianos Komnenos, son of Alexios I's brother Isaakios and a future archbishop, disposed of his wealth, took off the mask he shared with other members of the ruling group, separated from his wife, cut his ties with his children and became a monk