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Komnenos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><i>Emperor and Autocrat of all the East and Perateia</i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Trapezuntine_emperors" title="List of Trapezuntine emperors">Emperor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Trebizond" title="Empire of Trebizond">Trebizond</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">5 March 1417 – 26 April 1429</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manuel_III_of_Trebizond" title="Manuel III of Trebizond">Manuel III</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_IV_of_Trebizond" title="John IV of Trebizond">John IV</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Co-emperor</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Trebizond" title="Alexander of Trebizond">Alexander</a> (1429)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1379</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">26 April 1429 (aged <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 50)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Theodora_Kantakouzene_(wife_of_Alexios_IV_of_Trebizond)" title="Theodora Kantakouzene (wife of Alexios IV of Trebizond)">Theodora Kantakouzene</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Issue_(genealogy)" title="Issue (genealogy)">Issue</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Elena Megas Komnene<br />A daughter (wife of <a href="/wiki/Jahan_Shah" title="Jahan Shah">Jahan Shah</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/John_IV_of_Trebizond" title="John IV of Trebizond">John IV Megas Komnenos</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Maria_of_Trebizond" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria of Trebizond">Maria Megas Komnene</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Trebizond" title="Alexander of Trebizond">Alexander Megas Komnenos</a><br /><a href="/wiki/David_of_Trebizond" title="David of Trebizond">David Megas Komnenos</a><br />Teodora <i>disputed</i><br />Eudoksia Valenza <i>disputed</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">Dynasty</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Komnenos_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Komnenos dynasty">Komnenos</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manuel_III_of_Trebizond" title="Manuel III of Trebizond">Manuel III Megas Komnenos</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mother</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gulkhan-Eudokia_of_Georgia" title="Gulkhan-Eudokia of Georgia">Eudokia of Georgia</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alexios IV Megas Komnenos</b> or <b>Alexius IV</b> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Αλέξιος Μέγας Κομνηνός</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Greek-language romanization"><i lang="el-Latn">Alexios Megas Komnēnos</i></span>; <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1379</span> – 1429), <a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_Trebizond" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor of Trebizond">Emperor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Trebizond" title="Empire of Trebizond">Trebizond</a> from 5 March 1417 to 26 April 1429.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was the son of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Manuel_III_of_Trebizond" title="Manuel III of Trebizond">Manuel III</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gulkhan-Eudokia_of_Georgia" title="Gulkhan-Eudokia of Georgia">Gulkhan-Eudokia of Georgia</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reign">Reign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexios_IV_of_Trebizond&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Reign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alexios IV had been associated in authority and given the title of <i><a href="/wiki/Despotes" class="mw-redirect" title="Despotes">despotes</a></i> by his father as early as 1395. Nevertheless, the two quarreled as Alexios was impatient to assume supreme power; William Miller compared this to "the first three sovereigns of the House of Hanover" for whom "the heir-apparent always quarrelled with his father."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When his father died in 1417, Alexios was accused by some of having expedited his death.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alexios inherited a conflict with the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Genoa" title="Republic of Genoa">Genoese</a>, who defeated the fleet of Trebizond and seized a local monastery, which they converted into a fortress. By 1418 he had signed a peace agreement and paid reparations to the Genoese until 1422. A new dispute arose over the emperor's obligations in 1425 and was not resolved until 1428. Relations with the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a> were generally better.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the death of <a href="/wiki/Timur" title="Timur">Tamerlane</a>, most of <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a> descended into chaos. <a href="/wiki/Kara_Yusuf" class="mw-redirect" title="Kara Yusuf">Kara Yusuf</a>, ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Kara_Koyunlu" class="mw-redirect" title="Kara Koyunlu">Kara Koyunlu</a> or "Black Sheep" Turks, devastated much of <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> and defeated the <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">Emir</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arsinga" class="mw-redirect" title="Arsinga">Arsinga</a> and the chieftain of the <a href="/wiki/Ak_Koyunlu" class="mw-redirect" title="Ak Koyunlu">Ak Koyunlu</a> or White Sheep Turks. Alexios sought to avoid hostility by marrying off daughters to his powerful Muslim neighbours. One daughter, was married to Kara Yusuf's son <a href="/wiki/Jihan_Shah" class="mw-redirect" title="Jihan Shah">Jihan Shah</a> in c.1420, and Alexios agreed to pay his son-in-law the same amount of tribute that had previously been due to Tamerlane.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller-80_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller-80-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another daughter, Theodora, was possibly married to Ali, son of <a href="/wiki/Kara_Y%C3%BCl%C3%BCk_Osman" class="mw-redirect" title="Kara Yülük Osman">Kara Yülük Osman</a>, the ruler of Ak Koyunlu, though Osman himself was likely the groom. Alexios' marital policy also extended to his Christian neighbours, and his eldest daughter was married to Serbian nobleman, later despot, <a href="/wiki/%C4%90ura%C4%91_Brankovi%C4%87" title="Đurađ Branković">Djuradj Branković</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexios IV's youngest daughter <a href="/wiki/Maria_of_Trebizond" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria of Trebizond">Maria of Trebizond</a> was married off to the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine Emperor">Byzantine Emperor</a> <a href="/wiki/John_VIII_Palaiologos" title="John VIII Palaiologos">John VIII Palaiologos</a> in 1427.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller-80_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller-80-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/George_Finlay" title="George Finlay">George Finlay</a>, Alexios IV spent much of his time in pursuit of pleasure and accomplished relatively little,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although there is no evidence in contemporary sources for this claim. Following tradition, he granted his eldest son, John IV, the courtly title of <i>despotes</i> in 1417. Despite this, relations deteriorated between father and son, and in 1426 John murdered Alexios' Treasurer, alleging an affair between him and the Empress <a href="/wiki/Theodora_Kantakouzene,_wife_of_Alexios_IV_of_Trebizond" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodora Kantakouzene, wife of Alexios IV of Trebizond">Theodora Kantakouzene</a>. He also attempted to kill his parents but the nobles intervened and prevented him, and John fled to <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller-81_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller-81-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Alexios IV's wife Theodora died in 1426, he was so distraught that <a href="/wiki/Bessarion" title="Bessarion">Bessarion</a> wrote him no less than three <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">monodias</i></span>, which help to shed some light on this otherwise dark period lacking in sources.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller-81_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller-81-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to John's disloyalty and usurpation, Alexios IV made his younger son <a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Trebizond" title="Alexander of Trebizond">Alexander of Trebizond</a> <i>despotes</i>. Eventually John left Georgia for the Genoese colony at <a href="/wiki/Caffa" class="mw-redirect" title="Caffa">Caffa</a>, where he enlisted a galley and its crew to help him recover his position in Trebizond. On 26 April 1429, the galley and its crew landed John near Trebizond; Alexios IV marched out to meet his son, only to be murdered during the night by nobles who had been won over by John.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alexander fled Trebizond; the Venetian traveller <a href="/wiki/Pero_Tafur" class="mw-redirect" title="Pero Tafur">Pero Tafur</a> encountered him in Constantinople around October of that year, living with his sister <a href="/wiki/Maria_of_Trebizond" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria of Trebizond">Maria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Burial">Burial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexios_IV_of_Trebizond&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Burial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Bryer" title="Anthony Bryer">Anthony Bryer</a>, John IV felt remorse for his father's death and one of the three indications Bryer provides is a free-standing tomb he had constructed outside of the Chrysokephalos cathedral, into which he moved his father's remains from its burial spot inside the cathedral.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to a Turkish tradition that the tomb housed the body of a Turkish hero of the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Trebizond_(1461)" title="Siege of Trebizond (1461)">last siege of Trebizond</a>, it was spared until 1918. In 1916, during the Russian occupation of Trebizond, <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Uspensky" title="Fyodor Uspensky">Fyodor Uspensky</a> excavated the tomb, finding one skeleton facing face, and a second one interred afterwards. The older skeleton Bryer, following Uspenskij's report, identified as Alexios'.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the Russian withdrawal from Trebizond, the older skeleton was entrusted to <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_Chrysanthus_of_Athens" class="mw-redirect" title="Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens">Chrysanthos Philippides</a>, then <a href="/w/index.php?title=Metropolitan_of_Trebizond&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Metropolitan of Trebizond (page does not exist)">Metropolitan of Trebizond</a>; the tomb outside the Chrysokephalos was destroyed by the Turks. During the <a href="/wiki/Population_exchange_between_Greece_and_Turkey" title="Population exchange between Greece and Turkey">1923 Exchange of Populations</a>, Chaldian antiquary George Kandilaptes collected as much of these bones as he could and brought them to Greece, where they were stored in the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_and_Christian_Museum" title="Byzantine and Christian Museum">Byzantine and Christian Museum</a> in Athens. Then in 1980 the remains of Alexios IV Megas Komnenos were brought with much ceremony to a final resting place in New Soumela, near <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kastania,_Imathia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kastania, Imathia (page does not exist)">Kastania</a> in <a href="/wiki/Imathia" title="Imathia">Imathia</a>. Bryer comments that "Alexios IV's is probably the only surviving skeleton of a Byzantine emperor", only to correct himself in a footnote that the remains of <a href="/wiki/Theodora_(wife_of_Theophilos)" title="Theodora (wife of Theophilos)">St Theodora</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Tzimiskes" class="mw-redirect" title="John Tzimiskes">John Tzimiskes</a>, and the thirteenth-century Dukai of the <a href="/wiki/Despotate_of_Epirus" title="Despotate of Epirus">Despotate of Epirus</a> might also survive.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_and_children">Marriage and children</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexios_IV_of_Trebizond&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Marriage and children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1395, Alexios married <a href="/wiki/Theodora_Kantakouzene,_wife_of_Alexios_IV_of_Trebizond" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodora Kantakouzene, wife of Alexios IV of Trebizond">Theodora Kantakouzene</a>. They had at least six children:<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Elena of Trebizond (c.1395 - 1410) - married despot <a href="/wiki/%C4%90ura%C4%91_Brankovi%C4%87" title="Đurađ Branković">Đurađ Branković</a> of Serbia, as his first wife</li> <li>A daughter who married <a href="/wiki/Jahan_Shah" title="Jahan Shah">Jahan Shah</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_IV_of_Trebizond" title="John IV of Trebizond">John IV of Trebizond</a> (c. 1403 - 1459).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_of_Trebizond" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria of Trebizond">Maria of Trebizond</a> (c. 1404 - 1439). Married <a href="/wiki/John_VIII_Palaiologos" title="John VIII Palaiologos">John VIII Palaiologos</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Trebizond" title="Alexander of Trebizond">Alexander of Trebizond</a>. Co-Emperor with his father. Married Maria Gattilusio, a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Dorino_of_Lesbos" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorino of Lesbos">Dorino of Lesbos</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_of_Trebizond" title="David of Trebizond">David of Trebizond</a> (c. 1408 - 1463).</li></ul> <p>Two further daughters have been attributed to Alexios by later genealogists. Michel Kuršanskis has argued these marriages never really happened, and their existence is based on a misreading of an interpolation to Chalcondyles.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These daughters are: </p> <ul><li>Theodora of Trebizond, presumed wife of <a href="/wiki/Ali_Beg_(Aq_Qoyunlu)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ali Beg (Aq Qoyunlu)">Ali Beg</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ak_Koyunlu" class="mw-redirect" title="Ak Koyunlu">Ak Koyunlu</a>. There is not mention of this marriage in any contemporany source. It is possible that she was confused with <a href="/wiki/Despina_Khatun" title="Despina Khatun">Theodora Despina</a>, daughter of John IV and wife of <a href="/wiki/Uzun_Hasan" title="Uzun Hasan">Uzun Hassan</a>, son of Ali Beg. An other option was that the Alexios' Theodora married instead <a href="/wiki/Qara_Yuluk_Uthman_Beg" title="Qara Yuluk Uthman Beg">Osman Beg</a>, father of Ali.</li> <li>Eudoksia Valenza of Trebizond, wife of <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Crispo,_Lord_of_Syros" title="Nicholas Crispo, Lord of Syros">Niccolò Crispo</a>, Lord of <a href="/wiki/Syros" title="Syros">Syros</a>. She was proposed as the daughter of Alexios when Ambassador <a href="/wiki/Caterino_Zeno" title="Caterino Zeno">Caterino Zeno</a>'s claim in his notes that she was the daughter of John IV proved to be false or an his error. Other historians argue instead that she was a Genoese woman.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexios_IV_of_Trebizond&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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