John II Komnenos, who reigns from 1118…

1132 CE to 1143 CE

John II Komnenos, who reigns from 1118 to 1143, tries and fails to break what is becoming the Venetian monopoly of imperial trade, and he seeks to come to terms with the new kingdom of Hungary, to whose ruler he is related by marriage.

Alexios I had seen the importance of Hungary, lying between the western and eastern Roman empires, a neighbor of the Venetians and the Serbs.

More ominous still had been the establishment in 1130 of the Kingdom of Sicily, but John astutely allies himself with the Western emperor, Germany’s Lothair II (or III), against the expansionist Norman state.

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John II Komnenos View → Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor View → Roger II of Sicily View →

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Germans View → Hungarian people View → Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines) View → Venice, Duchy of View → Serbs (South Slavs) View → German, or Ottonian (Roman) Empire View → Hungary, Kingdom of View → Roman Empire, Eastern: Komnenos dynasty, restored View → Serbian Grand Principality View → Italians (Latins) View → Italo-Normans View → Sicily, Kingdom of View →

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Norman Conquest of Southern Italy View →

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Commerce View → Conflict View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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