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.

The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes.

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

* Cardinal Afonso of Portugal, son of Manuel I of Portugal.

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.

While under the protection of Yaroslav, Andronikos brought about an alliance between him and the Emperor Manuel I, and so restored himself to the emperor's favour.

After a successful campaign Manuel I and Andronikos returned together to Constantinople ( 1168 ); but a year later, Andronikos refused to take the oath of allegiance to the future king Béla III of Hungary, whom Manuel desired to become his successor.

The people, who felt the severity of his laws, at the same time acknowledged their justice and found themselves protected from the rapacity of their superiors who had grown corrupt under the safety and opulence of Manuel I rule.

* Manuel Komnenos ( born 1145 ), who married Rusudan of Georgia and was the father of Emperor Alexios I and David Komnenos, the founders of the Empire of Trebizond

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

The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes.

After his return to Jerusalem in 1167, Amalric married Maria Comnena, a great-grandniece of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus.

Alphonse might have met Eastern Roman Emperor Manuel I Comnenus during his visit there.

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

** Manuel I, The Fortunate 1495-1521

Depiction of the Crux ( labelled ' Las Guardas ') by physician-astronomer Mestre João Faras in his letter of May 1, 1500, to King Manuel I of Portugal from the newly discovered land of Brazil

Historians generally credit João Faras-astronomer and physician of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500-for being the first European to depict it correctly.

* 1496 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of " heretics " from the country.

* 1521 – Manuel I of Portugal ( b. 1469 )

Called ho Megas (, translated as " the Great ") by the Greeks, Manuel is known to have inspired intense loyalty in those who served him.

Manuel III Megas Komnenos ( Greek: Μανουήλ Γ ΄ Μέγας Κομνηνός, Manouēl III Megas Komnēnos ) ( December 16, 1364 – March 5, 1417 ) was Emperor of Trebizond from March 20, 1390 to his death in 1417.

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# Manuel Komnenos

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.

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.

Andrés Manuel del Río discovered compounds of vanadium in 1801 by analyzing a new lead-bearing mineral he called " brown lead ," and presumed its qualities were due to the presence of a new element, which he named erythronium ( Greek for " red ") since, upon heating, most of its salts turned from their initial color to red.

* April 15 – Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist

Manuel II Palaiologos or Palaeologus ( Greek: Μανουήλ Β ΄ Παλαιολόγος, Manouēl II Palaiologos ) ( 27 June 1350 – 21 July 1425 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 1391 to 1425.

* Historical contemporary references to Manuel II by the Byzantine Greek historian George Sphrantzes

He also brought the Byzantine scholar Manuel Chysoloras to Florence in 1397 to teach one of the first courses in Greek since the end of the Roman Empire.

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Believing that the Peloponnesians were direct descendents of the ancient Hellenes, Pletho rejected Justinian's idea of a universal Empire in favour of recreating the Hellenistic civilization, the zenith of Greek influence, In his 1415 and 1418 pamphlets urged Manuel II and his son Theodore to turn the peninsula into a cultural island with a new constitution of strongly centralised monarchy advised by a small body of middle-class educated men.

Manuel forced him to a humiliating visit to Constantinople, during which he renewed his oath of homage and promised to acknowledge a Greek patriarch.

In 1159 Raynald was forced to pay homage to Manuel as punishment for his attack, promising to accept a Greek Patriarch in Antioch.

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

Manuel ( or Emmanuel ) Chrysoloras (; c. 1355 – April 15, 1415 ) was a pioneer in the introduction of Greek literature to Western Europe during the late middle ages.

* I. Thompson, ` Manuel Chrysoloras and the early Italian Renaissance ', Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 7 ( 1966 ), 63-82

He was the author of numerous works, including: a Greek grammar in the form of question and answer, like the Erotemata of Manuel Moschopulus, with an appendix on the so-called " Political verse "; a treatise on syntax ; a biography of Aesop and a prose version of the fables ; scholia on certain Greek authors ; two hexameter poems, one a eulogy of Claudius Ptolemaeus — whose Geography was rediscovered by Planudes, who translated it into Latin — the other an account of the sudden change of an ox into a mouse ; a treatise on the method of calculating in use amongst the Indians ( ed.

He appointed the first Professor of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras ( the founder of Hellenic studies in Italy ), at the University of Florence in 1397.

His Manuel de philologie classique ( 1880-1884 ) was crowned by the French association for the study of Greek ; his Grammaire latine ( 1886 ) received a prize from the Society of Secondary Education ; La Nécropole de Myrina ( 1887 ), written with E Pottier, and Antiquités nationales were crowned by the Academy of Inscriptions.

The title remained the highest in the imperial hierarchy until the introduction of the sebastokratōr ( a portmanteau word meaning " majestic ruler " derived from sebastos and autokratōr, the Greek equivalents of Augustus and imperator ) by Alexios I Komnenos and later of despotēs by Manuel I Komnenos.

Thoros ’ s brother, Stephen, ignoring Thoros ’ s official pledges to Manuel, with the help of a few of his supporters continued attacking Greek garrisons thus giving Andronicus Euphorbenus, the Byzantine governor stationed in Tarsus, the opportunity to sabotage the treaty.

The German newspaper Die Welt reported that the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso had spent a week on the yacht of the Greek shipping billionaire Spiro Latsis.

Bohemond then visited Manuel in Constantinople, where he agreed to re-establish a Greek Patriarch in Antioch, Athanasius II.

Immediately after his arrival in Constantinople at end 1420, Filelfo placed himself under the tuition of John Chrysoloras, whose name was already well known in Italy as that of his uncle Manuel Chrysoloras, the first Greek to profess the literature of his ancestors in Florence.

The Teatro Manuel Suárez is one of few circular Greek style theatres in the world.

Latsis invited the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, who had been a student friend at the London School of Economics, to be a guest on his yacht a month before the Commission approved € 10. 3 million Greek state aid for Latsis ' shipping company ; but the approval had been given by the previous European Commission, before Durão Barroso had succeeded to its presidency.