History
Alexios was born about 1057, a son of the kouropalates John Komnenos and Anna Dalassene. In 1066 he is still a boy. Constantine X Doukas is the emperor, and the Komnenos house has not taken the crown. He became emperor on 1 April 1081 by deposing Nikephoros III Botaneiates, after Manzikert in 1071 and the civil wars that followed it.
The reign opened with Robert Guiscard in the Balkans and with Turkish settlement across Anatolia. Alexios rebuilt the army and the tax, issued the hyperpyron in place of the debased older coin, and tied military service to grants later writers call pronoia. In 1095–1096 he received the First Crusade at Constantinople and took oaths from its leaders. The crusaders recovered Nicaea for the empire and then kept Antioch.
His daughter Anna Komnene wrote the Alexiad, the court account of the reign. Alexios died on 15 August 1118. John II succeeded him and ruled until 1143. John's son Manuel is the emperor still on the throne in 1178.
Bookmarks
Basil I of the Makedon dynasty is the Byzantine emperor on the 867 bookmark. Constantine X Doukas is the emperor on the 1066 bookmark. He died in May 1067. Manuel I Komnenos, Alexios's grandson, is the emperor on the 1178 bookmark. Myriokephalon was in 1176, and Manuel died in 1180.
Alexios's own years, 1081 to 1118, fall between the 1066 and 1178 cards. The Komnenos page follows the house from the Doukas seat to Manuel. The Byzantine realm page holds all three imperial bookmarks.