Emperor Manuel I Komnenos E / L XII
Μανουὴλ Κομνηνός (BBÖ I.29, Varzos 81-I.422, Seyrig 8) (Manuel 1) Permalink: http://db.pbw.kcl.ac.uk/pbw2011/entity/person/107722
Narrative (428) Authorship (1) He had returned to Constantinople, making it essential for Georgios 25002 to come to the capital to lobby him Tornikes, Georgios 158.22-23, 161.4-6 Death (2) Description (31) Dignity/Office (37) Autokrator (7 sources) Basileus (7 sources)Despotes δεσπότης. Seal 2968 δεσπότης. Seal 2969 δεσπότης. Seal 111 δεσπότῃ. Seal 740 τοῦ κρατοῦντος δεσπότου. Seal 4516 Majesty τῇ βασιλείᾳ μου. Tornikes, Georgios 325.1 τὸ ... κράτος τῆς βασιλείας σου. Tzetzes, Letters 65.1 τῷ ... κράτει τῆς ... βασιλείας σου. Tzetzes, Letters 84.20 τῇ ... βασιλείᾳ αὐτοῦ. Sakkos (1166) 141.30, 153.24 τῇ ... αὐτοῦ βασιλείᾳ. Sakkos (1170) 332.9, 341.22 τοῦ ... σου κράτους. Tzetzes, Letters 66.28 σου τῷ κράτει. Prodromos, Historische Gedichte XXX.424 τῷ κράτει σου. Prodromos, Historische Gedichte XXXIIIb.11 Porphyrogennetos (8 sources)Sebastokrator σεβαστοκράτορα. Kleinchroniken 58.2 σεβαστοκρατορικαῖς τιμαῖς. Niketas Choniates, Historia 16.29-31 σεβαστοκράτορος. Pantokrator Typikon 261 Education (2) His instruction in military affairs came from his father (an expert teacher), who led him in the campaigns against Kastamon, Gangra, Cilicia and Syria, as his best warrior τὸ σὸν ἀπήστραπτε δόρυ τῶν ἁπάντων λαμπρότερον. Italikos 282.20-286.9 Though he had had no taste of education in logic, by his natural sharpness and greatness of intellect he was absolutely superior to all people born in our times κἂν γὰρ καὶ παιδείας ἄγευστος λογικῆς ἦν, ἀλλὰ φύσεως ὀξύτητι καὶ μεγαλείῳ νοήσεως πάντων ἐφάπαξ ἐκράτει τῶν ἐν τοῖς καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς χρόνοις γεγενημένων ἀνθρώπων. Kinnamos 253.6-9 Second Name (5) Kinship (99) Location (197) Occupation/Vocation (1) Alternative Name (1)