Ruler · 1007 – 1060

Isaac I Komnenos

Lived 1007 – 1060; military officer. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 1057 – 1059.

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Lived: 1007 – 1060; 53 years
In office: 2 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: ended otherwise; Kokkonen & Sundell

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 78th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

74 before

Zoe Porphyrogenita1042 – 1055

Theodora Porphyrogenita1042 – 1056

Michael VI Bringas1056 – 1057

Isaac I Komnenos1057 – 1059

Constantine X Doukas1059 – 1067

Konstantios Doukas1060 – 1078

Michael VII Doukas1067 – 1078

32 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 1057 – 1059 · 2 years · came to it aged 50

Left it: ended otherwisecoded by Kokkonen & Sundell

the article also: resigned

Shortly after, Isaac fell ill, and on the advice and pressure of Michael Psellos, he abdicated his throne in favour of Constantine X Doukas, retiring to the Stoudion monastery where he died later in 1060.

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