Failure of Alexios (I) Komnenos to have Nikephoros III install Konstantios as his heir
Unit appears in:
NIKEPHOROS III (1078-1081)
1078
Summary:
Following the reluctance of Konstantios Doukas to succeed his brother Michael VII, Alexios Komnenos proposed his nomination as successor to Nikephoros Botaneiates, with an equal lack of success
Dates:
1078
Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (
Alexios 1
)
His first attempt to place
Konstantios 61
Doukas on the throne having failed, he took him to
Nikephoros 3
(III Botaneiates) proposing that the latter could remain on the throne as long as he lived and that
Konstantios 61
should then succeed him (:)
δευτέραν ὁδὸν δραμεῖν εἵλετο Bryennios 59.4-13
Konstantios Doukas, brother of Michael VII (
Konstantios 61
)
Was taken by
Alexios 1
Komnenos, whose first attempt to place him on the throne had failed, to
Nikephoros 3
(III Botaneiates) with the proposal that
Konstantios 61
should succeed Nikephoros after his death (:)
τὸν τῆς βασιλείας κληρονόμον ἐπιτηδείως ἤδη ἔχοντα πρὸς τὴν ταύτης διακυβέρνησιν ἐγκαταστῆσαι αὐτῇ Bryennios 59.4-13