Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Under Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes ( 1071 – 1078 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 1081 ), he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace, and in Epirus.

Abbot Suger ( c 1081 – 1135 ) in a medieval stained glass window.

* Abbot Suger ( c 1081 – 1151 )

Under the Comnenian dynasty ( 1081 – 1185 ), Byzantium staged a remarkable recovery.

* 1081 – Louis VI of France ( d. 1137 )

That kingdom was divided between al-Mutamin ( 1081 – 1085 ) who ruled Zaragoza proper, and his brother al-Mundhir, who ruled Lérida and Tortosa.

It was only in the Comnenian period ( 1081 – 1185 ) that the cult of the icon became widespread in the Byzantine world, partly on account of the dearth of richer materials ( such as mosaics, ivory, and enamels ), but also because an iconostasis a special screen for icons was introduced then in ecclesiastical practice.

* 1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.

* 1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law.

* 1080 – 1081: The Chinese statesman and scientist Shen Kuo is put in command of the campaign against the Western Xia, and although he successfully halts their invasion route to Yanzhou ( modern Yan ' an ), another officer disobeys imperial orders and the campaign is ultimately a failure because of it.

* May 23 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1081 )

* August 1 – King Louis VI of France ( b. 1081 )

* January 13 – Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian ( b. c. 1081 )

* Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1081 – 1125 )

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* Louis VI ( 1081 – 1137 )

Nikephoros III Botaneiates, Latinized as Nicephorus III Botaniates (, c. 1002 – 10 December 1081 ) was Byzantine emperor from 1078 to 1081.

In The Development of the Komnenian Army 1081 – 1180, he stresses the wisdom of John's approach to warfare, which focused on sieges rather than risking pitched battles.

* Dumbarton Oaks, Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: Leo III to Nicephorus Iii, 717 – 1081 ( 1973 )

Louis VI ( 1 December 1081 – 1 August 1137 ), called the Fat (), was King of the Franks from 1108 until his death ( 1137 ).

Alexios ' father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081.

The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.

As stated in the Alexiad, Isaac and Alexios left Constantinople in mid-February 1081 to raise an army against Botaneiates.

After bribing the Western troops who had guarded the city, Isaac and Alexios Komnenos entered the capital victoriously on April 1, 1081.

* Constantine Humbertopoulos, who had assisted Alexios in gaining the throne in 1081 conspired against him in 1091 with an Armenian called Ariebes.

She was the last of the Macedonian line, and upon her death, the empire entered a period of decline that lasted until the accession of Alexios I Komnenos in 1081.

At the suggestion of his mother-in-law he wrote a history (" Materials for a History ", ) of the period from 1057 to 1081, from the victory of Isaac I Komnenos over Michael VI to the dethronement of Nikephoros III Botaneiates by Alexios I.

* Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor ( 1081 – 1118 )

Emperor Alexios I Komnenos ( 1081 – 1118 ) established a new military force from the ground up, which was directly responsible for transforming the aging Byzantine Empire from one of the weakest periods in its existence into a major economic and military power, akin to its existence during the golden age of Justinian I.

* Alexios I Komnenos ( 1048 – 1118 ), Byzantine Emperor ( 1081 – 1118 )

The Patria was written during the reign of Basil II ( 976 – 1025 ) and revised during the Alexios I Komnenos ( 1081 – 1118 ).

Muslim traders had their own lodgings ( mitaton ) there, including a mosque, while from the time of Alexios I Komnenos ( r. 1081 – 1118 ) on, the emperors granted to the various Italian maritime republics extensive trading quarters which included their own wharfs ( skalai ) beyond the sea walls.

* Alexios I Komnenos ( Ἀλέξιος Α ' Κομνηνός, 1056 – 15 August 1118 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118.

However, the Byzantine hierarchy during the reign of Alexios I Komnenos ( 1081 – 1118 ) convicted several thinkers of applying " human " logic to " divine " matters.

The dynasty returned to the throne with the accession of Alexios I Komnenos, Isaac I's nephew, in 1081.

Consequently in 1092, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos ( r. 1081 – 1118 ) undertook a drastic overhaul of the Byzantine coinage system and introduced a new gold coin, the hyperpyron ( meaning " super-refined ").

The new emperor, Alexios I Komnenos ( 1081 – 1118 ), was forced to call upon the assistance of the Venetians, who in the 1070s had already asserted their control of the Adriatic and Dalmatia against the Normans.

As stated in the Alexiad, when Isaac and Alexios left Constantinople in mid-February 1081 to raise an army against Botaneiates, Anna quickly and surreptitiously mobilized the remainder of the family and took refuge in the Hagia Sophia.

The office was initially created by Alexios I Komnenos ( r. 1081 – 1118 ), who reformed the derelict Byzantine navy and amalgamated the remnants of its various provincial squadrons into a unified force under the megas doux.

The post was first established by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos ( r. 1081 – 1118 ) as the logothetēs tōn sekretōn ( Greek: ), in an attempt to improve the coordination of the various departments.

It was written in the reign of Basil II ( 976-1025 ), revised and rearranged under Alexios I Komnenos ( 1081 – 1118 ), and perhaps copied by Codinus, whose name it bears in some ( later ) manuscripts.

For this reason the Doukas family supported Alexios in 1081, when a struggle for the throne erupted after the abdication of Nikephoros III Botaneiates.