John II Komnenos
1087 CE–1143 CE · Constantinople
John II Komnenos was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143, the son of Alexios I and widely regarded as one of the ablest rulers of the dynasty. Pious and disciplined, he devoted his reign to almost continuous campaigning, recovering territory from the Turks in Anatolia and reasserting imperial authority over the Balkans, the Danube frontier, and the Crusader states of the Levant. He reformed the administration and reduced reliance on the trading privileges earlier granted to Venice. He died in 1143 from an infected wound sustained in a hunting accident.
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- Mstislav I of Kiev (Mstislav the Great)· 1076 CE–1132 CE
- Lord Four Wind 'Fire Serpent'· 1092 CE–
- Muhammad I Tapar· 1082 CE–1118 CE
- Kilij Arslan I· 1079 CE–1107 CE
- Barkiyaruq· 1080 CE–1105 CE
- Vladimir Monomakh· 1053 CE–1125 CE
- Lord Eight Deer 'Jaguar Claw'· 1063 CE–1115 CE
- Alexios I Komnenos· 1057 CE–1118 CE
- Andrey Bogolyubsky· 1111 CE–1174 CE
- Nur ad-Din· 1118 CE–1174 CE
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