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Comnenus (kŏmnē`nəs), family name of several Byzantine emperors—Isaac I Isaac I (Isaac Comnenus) (ī`zək kŏmnē`nəs), c.
..... Click the link for more information. , Alexius I Alexius I (Alexius Comnenus) (əlĕk`sēəs, kəmnē`nəs), 1048–1118, Byzantine emperor (1081–1118).
..... Click the link for more information. , John II John II (John Comnenus) (kŏmnē`nəs), 1088–1143, Byzantine emperor (1118–43), son and successor of Alexius I.
..... Click the link for more information. , Manuel I Manuel I (Manuel Comnenus) (kŏmnē`nəs), c.1120–1180, Byzantine emperor (1143–80), son and successor of John II.
..... Click the link for more information. , Alexius II Alexius II (Alexius Comnenus), 1168–83, Byzantine emperor (1180–83), son and successor of Manuel I. His mother, Mary of Antioch, who was regent for him, alienated the population by favoring the Latin element in Constantinople.
..... Click the link for more information. , and Andronicus I Andronicus I (Andronicus Comnenus) (ăndrənī`kəs kŏmnē`nəs)
..... Click the link for more information. —who reigned in the 11th and 12th cent., and of the historian, Princess Anna Comnena Anna Comnena (än`nə kŏmnē`nə), b. 1083, d.
..... Click the link for more information. . Though unable to turn back the forces that contributed to the eventual downfall of the Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire, successor state to the Roman Empire (see under Rome ), also called Eastern Empire and East Roman Empire. It was named after Byzantium, which Emperor Constantine I rebuilt (A.D. 330) as Constantinople and made the capital of the entire Roman Empire.
..... Click the link for more information. , they were generally able rulers. Hellenism was revived during the family's reign, and contact with the West was increased. A branch of the family founded the empire of Trebizond (see Trebizond, empire of Trebizond, empire of, 1204–1461. When the army of the Fourth Crusade overthrew (1204) the Byzantine Empire and established the Latin Empire of Constantinople, several Greek successor states sprang up.
..... Click the link for more information. ) after the fall of Constantinople in 1204.