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However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.
Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.
# John II Komnenos, who succeeded as emperor.
His participation in the attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat in 1200 had caused him to be imprisoned until the accession of Isaac II Angelos, who was restored to the throne after having been deposed and imprisoned by his brother Alexios III, and his son Alexios IV Angelos, who were placed on the throne by the intervention of the Fourth Crusade in July 1203.
By November 1183, Andronikos associated his younger legitimate son John Komnenos on the throne.
* John Komnenos ( apparently born 1159 or 1160 ), who was co-emperor with his father from 1183 to 1185 and was killed in that year
Emperor John II Komnenos | John II ( 1118 – 1143 ) is shown on the left, with the Mary, Mother of Jesus | Virgin Mary and infant Jesus in the centre, and John's consort Piroska of Hungary | Empress Irene on the right.
* 1087 – John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor ( d. 1143 )
* Battle of Beroia: Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos defeats and destroys the Pechenegs.
Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos restores their trading privileges.
* Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos defeats the Magyars near Haram on the Danube River.
* July 31 – Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
* 16 May – John Komnenos Vatatzes, Byzantine general
All the Babenberg dukes from Leopold V onward were descended from Byzantine emperors-Leopold's mother, Theodora Komnene, being a granddaughter of the Emperor, John II Komnenos.
Death of John II Komnenos, and crowning of Manuel I Komnenos ( from the Manuscript of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, Israel, 13th century, Bibliothèque nationale de France ).
Manuel Komnenos was the fourth son of John II Komnenos and Piroska of Hungary, so it seemed very unlikely that he would succeed his father.
He arrested the governor of the island and nephew of the emperor, John Komnenos, and the general Michael Branas.
This situation was exploited by the courtiers, led by Michael Psellos, who influenced Isaac to appoint as his successor Constantine Doukas, to the exclusion of his own brother John Komnenos.
John II Komnenos ( or Latinised as Comnenus ) (, Iōannēs II Komnēnos ) ( September 13, 1087 – April 8, 1143 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 1118 to 1143.
Also known as Kaloïōannēs (" John the Good " or " John the Beautiful "), he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina.

John and Alexios
However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.
Bryennios had been made kaisar ( Caesar ) and received the newly-created title of panhypersebastos (" honoured above all "), and remained loyal to both Alexios and John.
Friends of the young Alexios II now tried to form a party against the empress mother and the prōtosebastos ; Alexios II's half-sister Maria, wife of Caesar John ( Renier of Montferrat ), stirred up riots in the streets of the capital.
In spite of the resolution of problems in Europe, Andronikos II was faced with the collapse of the Byzantine frontier in Asia Minor, despite the successful, but short, governorships of Alexios Philanthropenos and John Tarchaneiotes.
As Alexios was entrusted with substantial armed forces to combat the impending Norman invasion, the Doukas faction, led by the Caesar John, conspired to overthrow Nikephoros and replace him with Alexios.
John II and his eldest son Alexios, crowned by Christ.
John II succeeded his father as ruling basileus in 1118, but had already been proclaimed co-emperor by Alexios I on September 1, 1092.
Alexios I had favoured John to succeed him over his wife Irene's favourite, the Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios, who was married to their daughter Anna Komnena.
As Alexios lay on his deathbed in the monastery of the Mangana on 15 August 1118, John, consorting with relatives whom he could trust, among whom was his brother, the sebastokratōr Isaac Komnenos, stole into the monastery and removed the imperial signet ring from his dying father.
To safeguard his own succession, John crowned his young son Alexios co-emperor in 1122.
Alexios had thought him a good companion for John, and so he had been brought up alongside John, who immediately appointed him as Grand Domestic ( in Greek: μέγας δομέστικος, megas domestikos ), upon his accession.
# Maria Komnene ( twin to Alexios ), who married John Roger Dalassenos
March 19, 1205 ), Emperor of Byzantium ( 1204 – 1205 ); and two younger brothers: Alexios Laskaris, Latin military leader against the Bulgars who fought with the French against John III Doukas Vatatzes and was imprisoned and blinded, and Isaakios Laskaris.
Theodore II Doukas Laskaris was the only son of Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes and Eirene Laskarina, the daughter of Emperor Theodore I Laskaris and Anna Angelina, a daughter of Emperor Alexios III Angelos and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina.
John Doukas Vatatzes was probably the son of the general Basileios Vatatzes, Duke of Thrace, who died in 1193, and his wife, an unnamed daughter of Isaakios Angelos and cousin of the Emperors Isaac II Angelos and Alexios III Angelos.
Coming to the throne at age nine, his reign began with immediate civil war between his designated regent, his father's friend John Kantakouzenos, and a self-proclaimed council of regency composed of his mother Anna, the patriarch John XIV Kalekas, and the megas doux Alexios Apokaukos.

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