Alexios I Comnenus Emperor of the East
- Born: Abt 1048, Constantinople
- Marriage: Eirene Doukaina
- Died: 15 Aug 1118 about age 70
General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 45:27, Irene Angelica, daughter of Isaac II Angelus, d. 1204, Eastern Roman Emperor, son of Andronicus Angelus (m. Euphrosyne Castamonita), son of Theodora Comnena (m. Constantinus Angelus), daughter of Alexis I, Comnenus, b. 1048, d. 15 Aug 1118, Emperor of the East, who m. c 1078, Irene, daughter of Andonicus Ducas, by wife Maria, daughter of Trojan of Bulgaria, son of Samuel, d. 1014, King of Bulgaria. . 160
Noted events in his life were:
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Midieval Lands, Alexios I. Alexios Komnenos, son of Ioannes Komnenos, kuropalates and domestikos & his wife Anna Dalassena ([1056/57]-15 Aug 1118). Nikeforos Bryennios names (in order) "Manuel, Isaacius, Alexius, Adrianus, Nicephorus" as the five sons of "Ioanni" and his wife Anna [Nikephoros Bryennios Liber I, 2, p. 19]. His parentage is confirmed by the Alexeiad naming "Ioannes Komnenos, my grandfather on my father's side" [Alexeiad, Book 2, p. 73].
Alexios married Eirene Doukaina, daughter of Andronikos Doukas and Maria Troiane. (Eirene Doukaina was born about 1066 in Byzantine and died about 19 Feb 1123.)
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