Alexios I Komnenos Emperor of Byzantium ¹¹⁵³

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Alexios I Komnenos (1048 or 1056 - 15 August 1118), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. Although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power. Inheriting a collapsing empire and faced with constant warfare during his reign against both the Seljuq Turks in Asia Minor and the Normans in the western Balkans, Alexios was able to curb the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery known as the Komnenian restoration. The basis for this recovery were various reforms initiated by Alexios. His appeals to Western Europe for help against the Turks were also the catalyst that likely contributed to the convoking of the Crusades.

Alexios blev gift med Eirene Doukaina, datter af Andronikos Doukas og Maria of Bulgaria, omkring 1078. (Eirene Doukaina blev født omkring 1066 i Istanbul, , Istanbul, Turkey og døde den 19 Feb. 1138.)