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Données personnelles JOHAN II KOMNENOS 

• Il est né le 13 septembre 1087 dans Constantinople, Byzantium, Turkey.
• Titre: Emperor of Byzantium
• Titre: Basileus of the East
• Il est décédé le 8 avril 1143 dans Cilicia, il avait 55 ans.
• Un enfant de ALEXIOS I KOMNENOS et IRENE AUGUSTA DOUKAINA

Famille de JOHAN II KOMNENOS

Il est marié avec IRENE PIROSKA ARPAD.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1104 à Esztergom, Komarom-Esztergom, Hungary, il avait 16 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Theodora KOMNENE  1116-1150 
2. Alexios KOMNENOS  -1142
3. Andronicus KOMNENOS  1108-1142 
4. Izak KOMNENOS  1113-1175 
5. MANUEL II KOMNENOS  1118-1180 

Notes par JOHAN II KOMNENOS

John II Komnenos or Comnenus, September 13, 1087 - April 8, 1143, was Byzantine Emperor from 1118 to 1143. Also known as "John the Beautiful" or "John the Good" (Kaloïōannēs), he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina and the second emperor to rule during the Komnenian restoration of the Byzantine Empire. John was a pious and dedicated monarch who was determined to undo the damage his empire had suffered following the battle of Manzikert, half a century earlier.

John has been assessed as the greatest of the Komnenian emperors. In the course of his twenty-five year reign, John made alliances with the Holy Roman Empire in the west, decisively defeated the Pechenegs, Hungarians and Serbs in the Balkans, and personally led numerous campaigns against the Turks in Asia Minor. John's campaigns fundamentally changed the balance of power in the east, forcing the Turks onto the defensive and restoring to the Byzantines many towns, fortresses and cities right across the peninsula. In the southeast, John extended Byzantine control from the Maeander in the west all the way to Cilicia and Tarsus in the east. In an effort to demonstrate the Byzantine ideal of the emperor's role as the leader of the Christian world, John marched into Muslim Syria at the head of the combined forces of Byzantium and the Crusader states; yet despite the great vigour with which he pressed the campaign, John's hopes were disappointed by evasiveness of his Crusader allies and their reluctance to fight alongside his forces. Also under John, the empire's population recovered to about 10 million people.

Unfortunately, John's reign is less well recorded by contemporary or near-contemporary writers than those of either his father, Alexios I, or his son, Manuel I. In particular little is known of the history of John's domestic rule or policies.

Having prepared his army for a renewed attack on Antioch, John amused himself by hunting wild boar on Mount Taurus in Cilicia, where, on April 8, 1143, he accidentally cut himself on the hand with a poisoned arrow. John initially ignored the wound and it became infected, he died a number of days after the accident, probably of septicaemia. It has been suggested that John was assassinated by a conspiracy within the units of his army of Latin origins who were unhappy at fighting their co-religionists of Antioch, and who wanted to place his pro-western son Manuel on the throne. However, there is very little overt support for this hypothesis in the primary sources. John's final action as emperor was to choose Manuel, the younger of his surviving sons, to be his successor.

John II Komnenos married Princess Piroska of Hungary (renamed Irene), a daughter of King Ladislaus I of Hungary in 1104; the marriage was intended as compensation for the loss of some territories to King Coloman of Hungary. She played little part in government, devoting herself to piety and their large brood of children. Irene died on August 13, 1134 and was later venerated as Saint Irene. John II and Irene had 8 children:

Alexios Komnenos, co-emperor from 1122 to 1142
Maria Komnene (twin to Alexios), who married John Roger Dalassenos
Andronikos Komnenos (died 1142)
Anna Komnene, who married Stephen Kontostephanos
Isaac Komnenos (died 1154)
Theodora Komnene, who married Manuel Anemas
Eudokia Komnene, who married Theodore Vatatzes
Manuel I Komnenos (died 1180)
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_II_Komnenos

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