Overview
The Byzantine Empire is the Roman Empire seated at Constantinople. The title is the same on all three bookmarks. The dynasty is not. Basil I of the Makedon house is the 867 emperor. Constantine X of the Doukas house is the 1066 emperor. Manuel I of the Komnenos house is the 1178 emperor.
Basil's realm is the Macedonian recovery after the Amorian years. Constantine's realm is the wide empire still intact before Manzikert. Manuel's realm is what the Komnenian restoration still held after Myriokephalon in 1176. The seat rows below are the bookmark cards for those three emperors.
Starts
867
Basil I rules the Byzantine Empire for the Makedon dynasty. The bookmark card gives this seat no difficulty rating. His reign opened the Macedonian line that later emperors still claim.
| Seat | Detail |
|---|---|
| Start | 867 |
| Title | Byzantine Empire |
| Realm size | 85 counties |
| Status | Independent |
| Culture | Greek |
| Faith | Chalcedonianism |
| Dynasty | Makedon |
1066
Constantine X Doukas is the emperor. He died in May 1067. Manzikert, fought in 1071, belongs to the next reign, under Romanos IV, and to Alp Arslan's Seljuk realm.
| Seat | Detail |
|---|---|
| Start | 1066 |
| Title | Byzantine Empire |
| Realm size | 133 counties |
| Status | Independent |
| Culture | Greek |
| Faith | Orthodoxy |
| Dynasty | Doukas |
1178
Manuel I Komnenos is near the end of his reign. Myriokephalon was fought in 1176. He died in 1180. The bookmark name on his card is Call of the Empire.
| Seat | Detail |
|---|---|
| Start | 1178 |
| Bookmark | Call of the Empire |
| Title | Byzantine Empire |
| Realm size | 91 counties |
| Status | Independent |
| Culture | Greek |
| Faith | Orthodoxy |
| Dynasty | Komnenos |
Later impact
Basil's line runs through Leo VI and Constantine VII into the tenth-century recovery, the conquests of Nikephoros II Phokas and John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II's Bulgarian wars. The 1066 empire Constantine X sits on is that recovered state, larger on the map than Basil's 867 realm.
After Constantine's death the throne passed to Romanos IV, then back toward the Doukas court. The Turkish victory at Manzikert and the civil war that followed opened Anatolia. Alexios I Komnenos took Constantinople in 1081, rebuilt the army and the coinage, and received the First Crusade. John II and then Manuel continued that restoration. Manuel's 1178 seat is the late chapter of the work Alexios began.
Manuel died in 1180. The Angelos emperors follow, and the Fourth Crusade takes Constantinople in 1204. The courts in exile, above all Nicaea, and the Palaiologan return to the city in 1261 are the later shape of the same title. A campaign that opens on Manuel is already inside the last stable decade of the Komnenian empire.
Historical links
- Basil I · 867 · Byzantine Empire
- Constantine X Doukas · 1066 · Byzantine Empire
- Manuel I Komnenos · 1178 · Byzantine Empire
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