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Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor

Also Known As: "Komnenos"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Byzantium (Constantinople), Istanbul, Turkey
Death: 1061 (49-58)
Monastery of Stoudios in Constantinople, Turkey
Immediate Family:

Son of Manuel Erotikos Komnenos and Anna Komnenos
Husband of Catherine of Bulgaria
Father of Maria Komnene; Manuel Komnenos and Isaac II Komnenos
Brother of Ioannes Komnenos and N.N. Dokeiana

Occupation: Emperador de Bizancio 1057-1059 (abdicó), Kejsare i Byzan 1057-1059
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About Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor

The Toledo Line

Generation No. 1

Isaac Comnenus Emperor

b 1025 Constantinople, Turkey

d 1061 Turkey, Turkey

He married 1052 Mrs. Isaac I Comnenus, [Empress]

b 1028

Isaac Comnenus, [Emperor]

b 1025, Of, Constantinople, , Turkey

d 1061, , Turkey, , Turkey

Children

1 < Don Pedro

2 Pedro Comneous, [Count]


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En la "foto", monedas de oro acuñadas por Isaac I: en la de la izquierda se representa a Jesús, en la de la derecha al propio Isaac I

Isaac I Comneno (c. 1005 - 1061) fue emperador bizantino de 1057 a 1059. Fue el primer emperador de la dinastía Comneno.

Isaac era hijo de Manuel Comneno, un oficial del emperador Basilio II que en su lecho de muerte había encomendado a sus dos hijos, Isaac y Juan, al emperador. Éste se había encargado de que los dos recibiesen una esmerada educación en el monasterio de Studion; más adelante, les dio importantes cargos en el ejército. En 1057 era el comandante en jefe del ejército bizantino, y encabezó una rebelión contra el emperador Miguel VI. El 8 de junio de ese año fue proclamado emperador por sus tropas y elevado sobre un escudo, según la antigua tradición militar. El 20 de agosto de ese mismo año derrotó a las tropas de Miguel II, y el 1 de septiembre entró triunfante en Constantinopla.

Se propuso reformar el ejército para recuperar para el Imperio la grandeza de la época de Basilio II. Para recaudar fondos, comenzó a confiscar propiedades a la aristocracia latifundista, que se había enriquecido enormemente en los años de crisis que siguieron a la muerte de Basilio II, en 1025. Intentó también confiscar propiedades de la Iglesia, lo que produjo su enfrentamiento con el patriarca de Constantinopla Miguel Cerulario, que había sido antes partidario suyo y había trabajado activamente para su entronización. Como el patriarca amenazase a Isaac con destituirlo, el emperador lo hizo detener y lo envió al exilio el 8 de noviembre de 1058. Como Cerulario se negase a renunciar a su cargo, Isaac hizo que se convocase formalmente un sínodo para destituirlo. El patriarca murió antes de que el sínodo pudiera dictar sentencia, pero el pueblo de Constantinopla lo consideró un mártir. Poco más de un año después de comenzar su reinado, Isaac se encontraba con la oposición frontal de la aristocracia, de la Iglesia y del pueblo de Constantinopla; sólo el ejército continuaba siéndole leal.

Realizó una única expedición militar durante su breve reinado, en 1059, contra los magiares y pechenegos, que amenazaban las fronteras septentrionales del Imperio. A finales de 1059, cuando se encontraba cazando, enfermó repentinamente, y nombró como sucesor, apremiado por Miguel Psellos, a Constantino Ducas. Murió en 1061, tras haber tomado el hábito de monje en Studion, donde se dedicó a los estudios literarios.

Referencias 

Norwich, John Julius: Breve historia de Bizancio. Cátedra, 2000. ISBN 84-376-1819-3

Predecesor: Miguel VI Emperador del Imperio Bizantino 1057 – 1059

Sucesor: Constantino X Ducas

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Isaac I (Comnenus), emperor of the East (1057-1059), was the son of an officer of Basil II. named Manuel Comnenus, who on his deathbed commended his two sons Isaac and John to the emperor's care. Basil had them carefully educated at the monastery of Stuclion, and afterwards advanced them to high official positions. During the disturbed reigns of Basil's seven immediate successors, Isaac by his prudent conduct won the confidence of the army; in 1057 he joined with the nobles of the capital in a conspiracy agamst Michael VI, and after the latter's deposition was invested with the crown, thus founding the new dynasty of the Comneni. The first care of the new emperor was to reward his noble partisans with appointments that removed them from Constantinople, and his next was to repair the beggared finances of the empire. He revoked numerous pensions and grants conferred by his predecessors upon idle courtiers, and, meeting the reproach of sacrilege by the patriarch of Constantinople by a decree of exile, resumed a proportion of the revenues of the wealthy monasteries. Isaac's only military expedition was against the Hungarians and Petchenegs, who began to ravage the northern frontiers in 1059. Shortly after this successful campaign he was seized with an illness, and believing it mortal appointed as his successor Constantine Ducas, to the exclusion of his own brother John.

Although he recovered, Isaac did not resume the purple, but retired to the monastery of Studion and spent the remaining two years of his life as a monk, alternating menial offices with literary studies. His Scholia to the Iliad and other works on the Homeric poems are still extant. He died in the year 1061. Isaac's great aim was to restore the former strict organization of the government, and his reforms, though unpopular with the aristocracy and the clergy, and not understood by the people, certainly contributed to stave off for a while the final ruin of the Byzantine Empire.

Isaac I (Isaac Comnenus) (īzək kŏmnēnəs), c.1005–1061, Byzantine emperor (1057–59), first of the Comneni dynasty. Proclaimed emperor by the army, he deposed Michael VI, who had succeeded Theodora (reigned 1055–56), and sent him into a monastery. Although at first received with enthusiasm at Constantinople, Isaac soon lost popularity with the aristocracy and, because of his confiscation of ecclesiastic property, with the church and the patriarch Cerularius, who was exiled. In 1059, after an unsuccessful campaign against the Pechenegs, Isaac abdicated for reasons of health and retired to a monastery. Constantine X (Constantine Ducas) was his successor. After the reigns of Romanus IV Romanus IV (Romanus Diogenes) (dīŏjənēz), d. 1072, Byzantine emperor (1068–71).

..... Click the link for more information. , Michael VII, and Nicephorus III, the Comnenus dynasty returned to the throne with Isaac's nephew Alexius I Alexius I (Alexius Comnenus) (əlĕksēəs, kəmnēnəs), 1048–1118, Byzantine emperor (1081–1118).

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Isaac I Komenos Byzantine Emperor from 1057-1059 and the first reigning member of the Komnenos dynasty. His brief reign saw an attempt to restore the Byzantine Empire’s military capability and reputation. .

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Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor's Timeline

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Byzantium (Constantinople), Istanbul, Turkey
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Ohrid, Bulgaria
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Age 54
Monastery of Stoudios in Constantinople, Turkey
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ERA - author of works on Homer
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