Ioannes Komnenos

Isaac I Komnenos

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In 1059, Isaac was seized with an illness, and believed it to be mortal. This situation was exploited by the courtiers, led by Michael Psellos, who influenced Isaac to appoint as his successor Constantine Doukas, to the exclusion of his own brother John Komnenos. Isaac abdicated on November 22, 1059, against the wishes of his brother and of his empress Catherine of Bulgaria.

Anna Dalassena

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Anna married Johannes Komnenos, whose brother Isaac became Emperor in 1057.

In 1044, Anna was married to John Komnenos, whose brother Isaac was chosen by a faction of rebel Byzantine generals to succeed the very old and inept Michael VI Stratiotikos. As a result, John was granted the titles of kouropalates and domestikos ton scholon of the West (commander of the western armies). Anna's equivalent of these titles, which appeared on seals, were kouropalatissa and domestikissa. In this regard, she was a high ranking personage at court, second only to the empress and her daughter. Her eldest child, Manuel, was born in 1045. However, her ambition did not end with bearing eight children: Manuel, Maria, Isaac, Eudokia, Theodora, Alexios, Adrianos and Nikephoros.

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