Balkan

Simultaneously, Taronites who had married the Emperor’s sister, was created ‘Protosebastos’ and ‘Protovestiaire,’ and soon afterwards he was gazetted ‘Panhypersebastos,’ and then sat with...

The most surprising feature, seldom found in other women, was that she abashed the audacious, but by a single glance gave fresh courage to...

His broad shoulders, muscular arms, mighty chest, in fact his generally heroic appearance, evoked in the multitude the greatest admiration and pleasure. From his...

He had already in former times been a frequent visitor to the mother of the Comneni and had predicted her son’s rise to the...

By use of the above-mentioned arguments the Caesar soothed and appeased the Emperor’s mind, although many advised him to marry Eudocia. Of her it...

And the Caesar, John Ducas, was anxious to get rid of Queen Maria, and – drive her out of the palace as quickly as...

II And now, as I said above, many people were suspicious of the Queen’s staying in the palace, and began to whisper that the...

He was fair-haired with a milk-white complexion, suffused in the right places with a delicate pink, like that of a rose just bursting its...

The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power StrugglesI directly the Comneni had taken possession of the palace they dispatched to the Emperor their niece’s...

On this same day he ordered me to be his guest. But as he did not think me worthy to be placed above any...