Shortly before the fall of Constantinople to…

April 1204 CE

Shortly before the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade, the twenty-two year old Alexios Komnenos, the eldest son of Manuel Komnenos and of Rusudan, daughter of George III of Georgia (and thus a grandson of the dethroned Emperor Andronikos I) had occupied Trebizond in April 1204 with the aid of a Georgian contingent provided by his aunt, Queen Tamar of Georgia.

The Komnenos family is popular on the Black Sea coast, from which it had come originally and had long ties to the region.

In 1182 his grandfather Andronikos had had a stronghold at Oinaion between …

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