Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

# Anna Komnene, who married the Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

Greek fire continued to be mentioned during the 12th century, and Anna Komnene gives a vivid description of its use in a naval battle against the Pisans in 1099.

The information available on Greek fire is exclusively indirect, based on references in the Byzantine military manuals and a number of secondary historical sources such as Anna Komnene and Western European chroniclers, which are often inaccurate.

In her Alexiad, Anna Komnene provides a description of an incendiary weapon, which was used by the Byzantine garrison of Dyrrhachium in 1108 against the Normans.

Anna Komnene gives this account of beast-shaped Greek fire projectors being mounted to the bow of warships:

At this time, there were still members of the Byzantine court who remembered the passage of the First Crusade, which was a defining event in the collective memory of the age and one which had fascinated Manuel's aunt, Anna Komnene.

* 1083-1153 Anna Komnene, Latinized as Comnena

# Anna Komnene, who married Stephen Kontostephanos

In 1097, 14-year-old Anna Komnene married an accomplished young nobleman, the Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

According to Dion C. Smythe, Anna “ felt cheated ” because she “ should have inherited .” Indeed, according to Anna Komnene in the Alexiad, at her birth she was presented with “ a crown and imperial diadem .” Anna ’ s “ main aim ” in the depiction of events in the Alexiad, according to Vlada Stankovíc, was to “ stress her own right ” to the throne and “ precedence over her brother, John .”

The exact date of Anna Komnene ’ s death is uncertain.

Anna Komnene plays a secondary role in Sir Walter Scott ’ s 1832 novel Count Robert of Paris.

By the Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios, Anna Komnene had several children, including:

* Anna Komnene, The Alexiad, translated by E. R. A.

* Alexander Kazhdan, ' Komnene, Anna ', in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ed.

* Angeliki Laiou, “ Introduction: Why Anna Komnene ?” Anna Komnene and Her Times, ed.

* Diether R. Reinsch, “ Women ’ s Literature in Byzantium ?— The Case of Anna Komnene ,” Anna Komnene and Her Times, ed.

After a hiatus of several centuries, formal commentary by Eustratius and Michael of Ephesus reappears in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, apparently sponsored by Anna Comnena

* Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, translated E. R. A. Sewter, Penguin Classics, 1969

* 1083 – Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian ( d. 1153 )

* Anna Comnena, Byzantine princess and historian ( b. 1083 )

* Anna Comnena writes the Alexiad, which is a biography of her father, Emperor Alexius I.

* December 1 – Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian ( d. 1153 )

According to Anna Comnena, Baldwin reprimanded one of his soldiers who dared to sit on Alexius ' throne in Constantinople.

* Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, trans.

According to Anna Comnena, he had attempted to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem before 1096, but was prevented by the Seljuk Turks from reaching his goal and was tortured.

Fictional accounts of her life are given in the 1928 novel Anna Comnena by Naomi Mitchison, and the 1999 novel for young people Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett.

The novel Аз, Анна Комнина ( I, Anna Comnena ) was written by Vera Mutafchieva, a Bulgarian writer and historian.

* Georgios Tornikes, ' An unpublished funeral oration on Anna Comnena ', English translation by Robert Browning, in Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence, ed.

* Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928

* Anna Comnena, The Alexiad of Anna Comnena, edited and translated by E. R. A.

* Georgina Buckler, Anna Comnena: A Study, Oxford University Press, 1929.

* John France, " Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade ", Reading Medieval Studies v. 9 ( 1983 )

* " Anna Comnena " in the Catholic Encyclopedia.

* Female Heroes From The Time of the Crusades: Anna Comnena. 1999.

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