John II Comnenus

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On account of his mild and just reign he has been called the Byzantine <a href="/people/979/000087718/">Marcus Aurelius</a>. By the personal purity of his character he effected a notable improvement in the manners of his age, but he displayed little vigor in internal administration or in extirpating the long-standing corruptions of the government. Nor did his various successes against the Hungarians, Serbians and Seljuk Turks, whom he pressed hard in Asia Minor and proposed to expel from Jerusalem, add much to the stability of his empire. He was accidentally killed during a wild-boar hunt on Mt. Taurus, on the 8th of April 1143. <p><b>Father:</b> Alexius (Byzantine Emperor)<br><b>Wife:</b> Piroska (dau. Ladislaus I of Hungary, m. 1104)<br><b>Son:</b> Isaakios<br><b>Son:</b> <a href="/people/054/000095766/">Manuel I Comnenus</a><br><p>    <a href="/gov/053/000095765/">Byzantine Emperor</a> 1118 to 8-Apr-1143<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=101546"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=101546">John II Comnenus</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=101546" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>

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