disappears until 1080, when Isaac Kontostephanos was captured by the Seljuk Turks. The pansebastos sebastos Isaac Kontostephanos went on to serve through most...

aristocrat. Born ca. 1132/33, Andronikos Kontostephanos was the third and youngest son of Stephen Kontostephanos, who held the title panhypersebastos and...

and his nephew, Saladin, took power as regent. In 1169, Andronikos Kontostephanos was appointed commander of a fleet carrying a Byzantine army to invade...

to Himara, while Kontostephanos was unable to reimpose order. After Bohemond's successful landing, the emperor charged Kontostephanos with intercepting...

finally the rear division under the experienced general Andronikos Kontostephanos. No estimates of Seljuk numbers for the battle have been possible. Primary...

Stephen Kontostephanos (Greek: Στέφανος Κοντοστέφανος, c. 1107 – 1149) was a Byzantine aristocrat and military commander. Stephen was born in c. 1107,...

ceased, and an amnesty was negotiated by the megas doux Andronikos Kontostephanos and the megas hetaireiarches John Doukas. Greek historian Niketas Choniates...

Emperor Manuel I Komnenos. Born ca. 1128, John Kontostephanos was the eldest son of Stephen Kontostephanos, who held the title panhypersebastos and the...

prōtosebastos organized a fleet to stop Andronikos, led by Kontostephanos, though Kontostephanos likewise defected to the rebel's side. With no military...

Dalassenos. Andronikos Komnenos (died 1142). Anna Komnene, married Stephen Kontostephanos. Isaac Komnenos (died 1154). Theodora Komnene (died 12 May 1157), who...

Alexios had three daughters: Eirene Angelina, who married (1) Andronikos Kontostephanos, and (2) Alexios Palaiologos, by whom she was the grandmother of Emperor...

to the field in person, therefore he appointed his nephew Andronikos Kontostephanos, the Megas Doux, to the command of his field army, with orders to bring...

caesar John, his loyal generals Andronikos Doukas Angelos, Andronikos Kontostephanos and John Komnenos Vatatzes,: 64  while Empress Dowager Maria was put...

(mid-12th century) Alexios Kontostephanos (1167) Constantine Doukas (1183) Stephen Kontostephanos (1193) Nikephoros Kontostephanos (1197) The supreme Venetian...

booty. In 1167, Manuel sent 15,000 men under the command of Andronikos Kontostephanos against the Hungarians, scoring a decisive victory at the Battle of...

Andronikos Kontostephanos (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Κοντοστέφανος, fl. 1125–1156) was a Byzantine aristocrat and military commander. Andronikos was the son of...

Constantinople. Following the defection of the megas doux Andronikos Kontostephanos with the navy to the rebel, a revolt broke out in the city and the gates...

Manuel wanted to marry a princess from one of the Crusader states. John Kontostephanos, the chief dragoman (interpreter) Theophylact, and the akolouthos of...

post of megas doux was dominated by the Kontostephanos family; one of its members, Andronikos Kontostephanos, was one of the most important officers of...

raised a fleet of 70 ships to take back Cyprus. Its commanders were John Kontostephanos and Alexios Komnenos (died 1188), a nephew once removed of the emperor...

(d. 1212) Andronikos Doukas Angelos, Byzantine aristocrat Andronikos Kontostephanos, Byzantine aristocrat Blanche of Navarre, Queen of Castile (d.1156)...

expense. Her own brother, Basil Kamateros, and her son-in-law, Andronikos Kontostephanos, possibly driven by anger at her apparent curtailing of overall familial...

Komnene (c. 1110/11 – after 1149), who married the admiral Stephen Kontostephanos, who died in battle in 1149. The couple had four children. Isaac Komnenos...

men." The emperor John II and the generals Stephanos and Andronikos Kontostephanos, both leading commanders with the rank of megas doux, are recorded personally...

century) Alexios Kontostephanos (1167), nephew of Manuel I Constantine Doukas (1183) Stephen Kontostephanos (1193) Nikephoros Kontostephanos (1197) Kazhdan...

Antioch (d. 1163) John Doukas Komnenos, Byzantine governor (d. 1176) John Kontostephanos, Byzantine aristocrat Lorcán Ua Tuathail, Irish archbishop of Dublin...

chiefly in honour of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and his general, Alexios Kontostephanos, as well as monodies for his friends, including Eustathius. He may also...

de la Roche Bertrand de Blanchefort Gilbert of Assailly Andronikos Kontostephanos Baldwin IV of Jerusalem Guy of Lusignan Raynald of Châtillon Raymond...

Sicilian fleet. During the three-month siege, Byzantine admiral Stephen Kontostephanos is killed by a stone thrown by a catapult. Manuel prepares an offensive...

Lead seal of Michael Kontostephanos, kouropalates and doux of Antioch, ca. 1055...