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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMNENUS , the name of a See also:

Byzantine See also:family which from 1o81 to 1185 occupied the See also:throne of See also:Constantinople. It claimed a See also:Roman origin, but its earliest representatives appear as landed proprietors in the See also:district of Castamon (mod. See also:Kastamuni) in See also:Paphlagonia. Its first member known in Byzantine See also:history is See also:MANUEL EROTICUS COMNENUS, an able See also:general who rendered See also:great services to See also:Basil II. (976—1025 ) in the See also:East. At his See also:death he See also:left his two sons See also:Isaac and See also:John in the care of Basil, who gave them a careful See also:education and advanced them to high See also:official positions. The increasing unpopularity of the Macedonian See also:dynasty culminated in a revolt of the nobles and the soldiery of See also:Asia against its feeble representative See also:Michael VI. Stratioticus, who abdicated after a brief resistance. Isaac was declared See also:emperor, and crowned in St See also:Sophia on the 2nd of See also:September 1057. For the rulers of this dynasty see ROMAN See also:EMPIRE, LATER, and See also:separate articles. With Andronicus I. (1183—1185) the See also:rule of the Comneni proper at Constantinople came to an end.

A younger See also:

line of the See also:original See also:house, after the See also:establishment of the Latins at Constantinople in 1204, secured See also:possession of a fragment of the empire in Asia See also:Minor, and founded the empire of See also:Trebizond (q.v.), which lasted till 1461, when See also:David Comnenus, the last emperor, was deposed by Mahommed II. For a general See also:account of the family and its alleged survivors see See also:article " Komnenen," by G. F. See also:Hertzberg, in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopddie, and an See also:anonymous monograph, Precis historique de la maison imperiale See also:des Comnenes (See also:Amsterdam, 1784); and, for the history of the See also:period, the See also:works referred to under ROMAN EMPIRE, LATER.

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