Alexios I Komnenos
1057 CE–1118 CE · Constantinople
Alexios I Komnenos was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118 and the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, which stabilized an empire that had been on the brink of collapse. He fought off invasions by the Normans under Robert Guiscard, the Pechenegs, and the Seljuk Turks, rebuilding the army and the state's finances through far-reaching reforms. His appeal to the West for military aid against the Turks helped set in motion the First Crusade in 1096, whose armies he managed with wary diplomacy as they passed through his lands. His reign is documented in detail by his daughter Anna Komnene in her history, the Alexiad.
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