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Ioannikios, Bishop of Maroneia
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Athinodoros Tarsoudis
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Isaakios Komninos
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1093 - 1152
Third son of the emperor Alexios I Komninos and Irini Douka, he received
from his father the title of caesar and was elevated to the rank of sevastokrator
(prince) by his brother, emperor Ioannis II. Aspiring to usurp his brother’s throne,
he plotted with state officials and all the enemies of Byzantium (Muslims, Armenians
and Latins) while he was in exile. During his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he
had built at his own expense an aqueduct to the monastery of St. John the Baptist
near the Jordan river. With the sudden death of Ioannis II, Isaakios asserted
his right to the throne over that of the legitimate heirs, Isaakios and Manouil,
without success. He married a certain Irini, with whom he had two sons and two
daughters. With the appearance of the first symptoms of a fatal illness (1150)
his thirst for power ceased. In 1151/2 he founded and endowed the large monastery
of the Virgin Kosmosoteira at Vira with his immense estates at Ainos. And there
he was buried despite having prepared a luxurious tomb in the narthex of the Monastery
of Chora in Constantinople. He also drew up the book of rules and regulations
(Typikon) for the Kosmosoteira monastery, the text of which has survived to this
day. The figure of St. Merkourios in a fresco decorating the monastery church
is thought to be his portrait.
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