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Alexios Komnenos
Byzantine junior emperor; (1106-1142)
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Not who you're looking for? Others named Alexios Komnenos: Byzantine aristocrat and courtier; (1141-1183) · Illegitimate son of Byzantine Emperor Andronikos I and Theod · Byzantine military commander · governor of Dyrrhachium
Alexios Komnenos, latinised as Alexius Comnenus, and sometimes called Alexios the Younger, was the eldest son of the Byzantine emperor John II Komnenos and his wife Eirene of Hungary. He was crowned co-emperor in 1119, at 13 years of age, but predeceased his father in 1142. He was an elder brother of the emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and had a twin sister, Maria Komnene.
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