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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

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

A younger

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

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