Ruler · 1048 – 1118

Alexios I Komnenos

Lived 1048 – 1118. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 1081 – 1118; also in the line of Komnenos.

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Lived: 1048 – 1118; 70 years
In office: 37 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: natural death; Kokkonen & Sundell

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 85th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

81 before

Andronikos Doukas1068 – 1070

Romanos IV Diogenes1068 – 1071

Nikephoros III Botaneiates1078 – 1081

Alexios I Komnenos1081 – 1118

John II Komnenos1118 – 1143

Manuel I Komnenos1143 – 1180

Alexios II Komnenos1180 – 1183

25 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1081 – 1118 · 37 years · came to it aged 33

Came to it: seized power
Left it: natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell

In 1081, he led a rebellion against Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates and took the throne for himself.

Also in the line of Komnenos (1st of 5).

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