Talk:Alexios I Komnenos

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"he succession, which his wife Irene wished to alter in favour of her daughter Anne's husband, Nicephorus Bryennius for whose benefit the special title panhypersebastos (i.e. as it were augustissimus si quis ahus) was created."

Would someone please be so kind as to explain just what the hell this means? Thank you much. - user:Montrealais

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Somewhat literally (which is what I used in the article), "honored above all"--sebastos is, according to my handy copy of Liddell-Scott, a form of the verb "sebo," meaning honor, "pan" is "all", "hyper" is over. "Most honored" might be more idiomatic English. Vicki Rosenzweig

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Well what the text means is that since Bryennius did not succeed Alexius I, he was given the new title panhypersebastos, one of the highest ranks in Byzantine administration. "Sebastos" in Greek actually means "respected".

[edit] Map

To be totally accurate the city of Antioch was still formally part of the Byzantine Empire in 1081. It was semi-independant under an Armenian-Byzantine governor. But it only fell to the Seljucs at a later date. The map would be more accurate for 1091.

Urselius (talk) 09:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Geneology Nightmare

The beginning of this article confuses Alexios the first with his grandson of the same name. It says that he was the son of John II, when John II was in fact the son of Alexios I. Alexios the grandson was the son of John II. The top picture entitled "Depiction of Alexios as a young prince in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul" is also of Alexios the grandson (who died young, hence why he is frowning), and not Alexios I.

I should also note that the lady Anna Dalassena is listed as the mother of Alexios I. This is correct. But it says that she fathered him with her grandson, so that needs to be taken care of.

Speaking of taking care of this problem, I created my wiki account just now to address this problem. Since my experience with wikipedia editing is so new, I regret to say that I have absolutely no idea how to change it to make it right. But clearly, it needs to be fixed. Pharaoh of Byzantium? (talk) 03:57, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, that was added by Blofield of Spectre recently. I guess no one noticed. Well it was simple to fix. Adam Bishop (talk) 04:40, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Name

Dimadick, I don't know what you did, but I hope I've fixed it. I don't know what spelling this guy should be under, but if you are going to move it please be careful! Adam Bishop (talk) 00:57, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

The message I got whenever I tried to move it to "Komnenos" was that there was already an article of the same name. I thought it worked in the tenth try only to find it had worked because of an accidental mispelling. Dimadick (talk) 06:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah because there was a redirect, which had to be deleted first. Adam Bishop (talk) 08:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)