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• Zij is geboren op 16 februari 1083.
• Zij is overleden in het jaar 1148, zij was toen 64 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Alexis COMNEME en Eirine DOUKAINA

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Auteur de Alexiade, important travail historique en 15 volumes: ------------------------------------------Anne Comnène (1083 - 1148), is the girl of the Byzantine emperor Alexis I {{er}} Comnène and of Irene Doukas. Girl of Alexis Ier, the restorer of Byzance to the 11th century, and thus princess porphyrogénète, this strong personality tried to play a political role in Constantinople. At only a few days, it is promised in marriage to Constantin Doukas, according to a will of her father to multiply the bonds with the preceding dynasty, then because of the death of promised in marriage sound, was remariée with Nicéphore Bryennios, general overcome by Alexis I Comnène, probably in a preoccupation with appeasing and a consensus. Anne is different by her intellectual formation. She profits from a teaching looked after in philosophy, (formation of excellence because of its love for the letters). She also explains in the foreword of her work which she controlled rhetoric and mathematics. Besides she animates a intellectual circle in Constantinople, to which she orders comments on the work of Aristote. Anne is thus very familiar of the Byzantine literature, and in particular of the work of Psellos. This woman writes in a very pure style, near to that of traditional antiquity. Lastly, this intellectual formation was exceptional for a woman at that time. With died of Alexis I, in 1118, it is badly known. One knows it by what she says to us of her, and by the funeral praise that of her Georges Tornikès made. What one knows, they is that she is opposed firmly to the sucession on the imperial throne of her brother, the future Jean II, with the profit of her husband, Nicéphore Bryennios, as also his/her mother wishes it, Irene Doukaeina. Having failed by the weakness of Nicéphore (or by its desinterressement of the throne), it is forced to withdraw with the monastery constantinopolitain Théotokos Kécharitôméné (of the virgin full with graces) after the success of her Jean brother. She enters to the monastery in 1118, but is not made moniale that on its bed of death. It directs the school of this monastery, and it writes after 1148, the Alexiade . It is a continuation of the history which Nicéphore Bryennios had written, at the instigation of Irene Doukaeina. It is a completed history. After having summarized the work of her husband, it continues it by telling the catch to be able of Alexis. Alexiade is a history in 15 pounds, devoted mainly to the wars led by Alexis. It is based on testimonys of its contemporaries and its own memories. The History starts with the come to power of Alexis in April 1081. It continues with the account of the Wars of Alexis against the Norman ones, the Turks, and finally by the account of the crusades. It leaves us also a description of Bohémond de Tarente, Norman lord and hero of the First Crusade. In 1098, it seizes Antioche but does not manage to preserve its principality. It must then be solved to accept the assistance of the emperor Alexis Ier, of which it becomes the vassal like prince d' Antioche. Anne tells the operations led by her father against the Turks of Ikonion. Alexiade is thus a major source to inform itself on the wars and the political plots of the time. It describes the return of the army after its campaigns, but also the orphanage restored by her father: the large orphanage of Constantinople. Alexis indeed appears as very concerned fate of the prisoners whom it delivered, and of the orphan children that it brought back with him to Constantinople. When that is possible it tries to replace them in Constantinople within families of reception, related with the family of the child. If not, it places them within monasteries constantinopolitains, even with the Large orphanage, which it itself restored. Alexiade is an apologetic source which has as a function of glorifier his family. While drawing from official sources or her memories, Anne Comnène seeks with exalter the memory of Alexis I, always showing it with her advantage, against the Turks, or the Francs, which she hates particularly.

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