Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1118)

Manuel I Komnenos

Byzantine emperor from 1143 to 1180

Manuel I Komnenos, Latinized as Comnenus, also called Porphyrogenitus, was a Byzantine emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean. His reign saw the last flowering of the Komnenian restoration, during…