# Manuel Komnenos

Alexios II Komnenos or Alexius II Comnenus () ( 10 September 1169 – 24 September 1183, Constantinople ), Byzantine emperor ( 1180 – 1183 ), was the son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and Maria, daughter of Raymond, prince of Antioch.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

* Anna Angelina, who married ( 1 ) the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos, great-nephew of emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and ( 2 ) Theodore Laskaris, emperor of Nicaea.

On being ransomed he went to Constantinople, where was held the court of his cousin, the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, with whom he was a great favourite.

* Eirene Komnene ( born c. 1169 ), who was briefly married to Alexios Komnenos, a son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos by Theodora Batatzina.

The Byzantine Empire under Manuel I Komnenos | Manuel I, c. 1180

In fact, Despot was an Imperial title, first used under Manuel I Komnenos ( 1143 – 1180 ) who created it for his appointed heir Alexius-Béla.

* 1118 – Manuel I Komnenos, Greek Byzantine Emperor ( d. 1180 )

* 1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies.

* Manuel Komnenos, son of Andronikos Komnenos ( d. 1185 )

In 1180 the last of the capable Komnenoi, Manuel I Komnenos, died and was replaced by the relatively incompetent Angeloi dynasty, allowing some Bulgarian nobles to organize an uprising.

Bari was occupied by Manuel I Komnenos between 1155 – 1158.

Manuel I Komnenos ( or Comnenus ) (, Manouēl I Komnēnos ) ( 28 November 1118 – 24 September 1180 ) was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean.

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.

* Manuel Velázquez Cabrera: born in Tiscamania in 1863, the politician and lawyer who created the island's council.

* April 17 – Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer ( born 1860 )

José Manuel Ramos-Horta GCL (; born 26 December 1949 ) was the President of East Timor from 20 May 2007 to 20 May 2012, the second since independence from Indonesia.

* José Manuel Flores Moreno ( born 1987 ), Spanish footballer known as " Chico "

Manuel Castells ( Spanish name: Manuel Castells Oliván ; born 1942, in Hellín, Albacete, Spain ) is a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society, communication and globalization.

Constantine was born in Constantinople as the eighth of ten children to Manuel II Palaiologos and Serbian Helena Dragaš, the daughter of the Serbian prince Constantine Dragaš.

* Manuel Weber ( born 1985 ), Austrian football player

Esai Manuel Morales ( born October 1, 1962 ) is an American actor.

* Víctor Manuel ( born 1947 ), Spanish singer

Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (; born February 11, 1934 ) is a former Panamanian politician and soldier.

* Manuel Brancal ( born 1968 ), musician and composer.

** Juan Manuel Vargas ( born 1983 ), Peruvian footballer

Their first son, Manuel Ramon, was born on 19 December 1937 but died in infancy on 19 October 1938.

John, the eldest son of King Manuel I, was born in Lisbon on 6 June 1502.

Blessed Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago ( November 22, 1918 – July 13, 1963 ) was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico.

Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García was born in Paris to the Garcías, a Spanish opera family led by her father, tenor, singing teacher, composer and impresario Manuel García.

* July 1 – Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García, singer and music teacher ( born 1805 )

He was born in Verona, Italy and later studied Greek at Constantinople, where for five years he was the pupil of Manuel Chrysoloras.

Blondet was born Alba Giselle Blondet, to Victor Manuel Blondet and Alba Gomez, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Manuel Maria Filipe Carlos Amélio Luís Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Francisco de Assis Eugénio de Bragança was born in the last year of the reign of his grandfather, King Luís I ; he was the third child, and last son, born to Carlos I of Portugal and Amélie of Orleans in the Palace of Belém, Lisbon, seven months before his father ascended the Portuguese throne.

In exile, Manuel remained in his residence in Fulwell Park, Twickenham, near London and his English properties ( and where his mother had been born ).

# Manuel Komnenos, b. 1145

* Rusudan, married Manuel Komnenos ( born 1145 ), the eldest son of Andronikos I who was briefly Byzantine emperor.

Maria of Antioch ( 1145 – 1182 ) was a Byzantine empress as the wife of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.

Theodora Komnene or Comnena () ( born c. 1145 ) was a niece of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, and wife of King Baldwin III of Jerusalem.