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398:, 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. Due to a Turkish tradition that the tomb housed the body of a Turkish hero of the 378:, 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. Alexander fled Trebizond; the Venetian traveller 270:, 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 262:
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." When his father died in 1417, Alexios
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Anastasia Heidi M. Larvoll, The Marriage of despot Djuradj/Georg Brankovic and despina Eirene Kantakouzenos, The Building of Political Alliances through Marriage between Byzantium and Serbia in the 1400s, Institute for History IAKH University of Oslo,
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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. These daughters are:
339:, Alexios IV spent much of his time in pursuit of pleasure and accomplished relatively little, although there is no evidence in contemporary sources for this claim. Following tradition, he granted his eldest son, John IV, the courtly title of 317:, 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, 313:
in c.1420, and Alexios agreed to pay his son-in-law the same amount of tribute that had previously been due to Tamerlane. Another daughter, Theodora, was possibly married to Ali, son of
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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'.
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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
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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
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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
421:, Chaldian antiquary George Kandilaptes collected as much of these bones as he could and brought them to Greece, where they were stored in the 418: 1084: 658:
B.Ferjančić, Byzantines in Serbia in the first half of the 15. century, Serbian Academy od Sciences and Arts, Belgrade 1987-p.181
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A. Vasiliev, "Pero Tafur, a Spanish Traveler of the Fifteenth Century and his Visit to Constantinople, Trebizond, and Italy",
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encountered him in Constantinople around October of that year, living with his sister
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On the Russian withdrawal from Trebizond, the older skeleton was entrusted to
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Due to John's disloyalty and usurpation, Alexios IV made his younger son
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When Alexios IV's wife Theodora died in 1426, he was so distraught that
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Alexios IV had been associated in authority and given the title of
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Foundations: The Journal of the Foundation for Mediaeval Genealogy
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Trebizond: The last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era: 1204-1461
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The History of Greece and the Empire of Trebizond, (1204–1461)
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from 5 March 1417 to 26 April 1429. He was the son of Emperor
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Bryer, "'The faithless Kabazitai and Scholarioi'", in
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Elena of Trebizond (c.1395 - 1410) - married despot
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Index

Emperor
Trebizond
Manuel III
John IV
Alexander
Theodora Kantakouzene
Issue
Jahan Shah
John IV Megas Komnenos
Maria Megas Komnene
Alexander Megas Komnenos
David Megas Komnenos
Dynasty
Komnenos
Manuel III Megas Komnenos
Eudokia of Georgia
Greek
romanized
Emperor
Trebizond
Manuel III
Gulkhan-Eudokia of Georgia
despotes
Genoese
Republic of Venice
Tamerlane
Asia Minor
Kara Yusuf
Kara Koyunlu
Armenia

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