Andronikos (I) made two unsuccessful attempts to murder Manuel at Pelagonia
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MANUEL I (1143-1180) (1143-1160)
1154
Summary:
Dates:
1154
Alexios Axouchos (
Alexios 17004
)
Warned the empress
Eirene 66
of
Andronikos 1
's second plot at Pelagonia (:)
Kinnamos 129.16-18
Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos (
Andronikos 1
)
Pelagonia assassination plot 1: when the emperor
Manuel 1
was on an overnight hunt, Andronikos took some Isaurians and a fast horse, hid them at a distance and approached Manuel's tent on foot with a dagger, disguised as an Italian (:)
Kinnamos 129.1-9
Pelagonia assassination plot 2: he waylaid emperor
Manuel 1
at night with more Isaurians; Manuel was warned and coolly escaped, despite delay of help under
Ishaq 17001
(a little later:ὀλίγῳ δὲ ὕστερον)
Kinnamos 129.15
As he reached the emperor
Manuel 1
's tent to kill him, realising the guards had drawn their swords, he stopped, pretended to defecate, and gave up (:)
Kinnamos 129.9-15
guardsman at Herakleia (Pelagonia) (
Anonymus 17040
)
Was sent first by the empress
Eirene 66
to warn
Manuel 1
of
Andronikos 1
's second plot (apparently successfully) (:)
Kinnamos 129.19-20
Eirene (Bertha of Sulzbach), first wife of Manuel I (
Eirene 66
)
Told by
Alexios 17004
(Axouchos) of
Andronikos 1
's second plot, she sent first a guardsman (
Anonymus 17040
) then
Ishaq 17001
to warn
Manuel 1
(:)
Kinnamos 129.16-22
Ioannes Komnenos, protosebastos and protovestiarios (
Ioannes 17006
)
Was said to have been the first of those around the sleeping emperor
Manuel 1
at Pelagonia to have noticed his cousin
Andronikos 1
's murderous approach (:)
Kinnamos 129.9-12
Ishaq (later Michael), in service of Manuel I (
Ishaq 17001
)
Was sent with 300 armed men by empress
Eirene 66
to help
Manuel 1
against
Andronikos 1
's second plot, but arrived too late to be of use (:)
Kinnamos 129.20-130.1