Accession of Alexios I Komnenos
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Transition: Nikephoros III to Alexios I (1081)
1081
Summary:
Alexios I removed Nikephoros Botaneiates from power, ascended the throne, and reigned piously for 37 years and four and a half months. He was strongly supported by his mother Anna Dalassene and his brother Isaakios
Dates:
1081 April 2
Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (
Alexios 1
)
Removed from power Botaneiates (
Nikephoros 3
), ascended the throne, and reigned piously for 37 years and 4 and a half months (on April 2 (or 1) of the 4th indiction in the year 6589:μηνὶ ἀπριλλίῳ β ´, τῇ μεγάλῃ ε ´, ἰνδικτιῶνος δ ´, ἔτους ,ςφπθ ´)
Kleinchroniken 145.78, 162.22-23, 168.23, 171.1
Assumed the imperial diadem (:)
Zonaras 18.21.5
Anna Dalassene (
Anna 61
)
When her son
Alexios 1
ascended the throne she remained by his side (:)
παρ᾿ αὐτοῖς οὖν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῶν Glykas 618.17
Had no share in the imperial insignia on account of her nuns habit, nor indeed in the acclamation and proclamation, and shared the name of empire alone; but herself assumed the entire administration of affairs (:)
Zonaras 18.21.6
Isaakios Komnenos, elder brother of Alexios I (
Isaakios 61
)
When (his brother)
Alexios 1
ascended the throne he remained by his side (:)
παρ᾿ αὐτοῖς οὖν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῶν Glykas 618.17
Alexios 1
associated him in power with him because he respected him as a father in everything (:)
Anna Komnene 90.92-93
Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates (
Nikephoros 3
)
Was deposed and succeeded by
Alexios 1
Komnenos (:)
τὴν τοῦ Βοτανειάτου καθαίρεσιν Skylitzes Continuatus 182.11-12