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    John Axouch or Axouchos (Greek: Ἰωάννης Ἀξούχ or Ἀξοῦχος, romanized: Iōánnēs Axoûchos, (Turkish: AxouchTurkish pronunciation: [Aksuh] (fl. 1087 – c. 1150)...
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    emperor's friend John Axouch. Axouch wisely declined and his influence ensured that Anna's property was eventually returned to her and that John II and his...
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  • Alexios Axouch was the son of John Axouch, the megas domestikos of the Byzantine army, boyhood friend and "right-hand man" of Emperor John II Komnenos...
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  • family via John Tzelepes Komnenos. The Trapezutine branch of the Komnenos dynasty also held the name of Axouchos as descendants of John Axouch, a Byzantine...
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  • Manuel sent Axouch in all haste to assume control in Constantinople. Indeed, Axouch managed to arrive in the capital before news of John's death arrived...
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    noble house of Turkic origin which included famed politicians such as John Axouch This empire lasted for more than 250 years until it eventually fell at...
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    spot where his father died. Swiftly, he dispatched the megas domestikos John Axouch ahead of him, with orders to arrest his most dangerous potential rival...
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    of the Komnenian emperors. In 1119, Emperor John II Komnenos and his chief military commander, John Axouch, captured Laodicea from the Seljuk Turks in...
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    Alexios Axouch. He was the son of John Axouch, the megas domestikos (commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army), who was a close friend of John II. Alexios...
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    Samonas (eunuch) Andrew of Constantinople (holy man) Tzachas (soldier) John Axouch (soldier) History of slavery Slavery in ancient Rome Arab–Byzantine prisoner...
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    remainder of the Texian forces that Santa Anna's army was unbeatable. John Axouch (1087–1150), a Seljuk Turk captured as a child by the Byzantine Empire...
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    John I Komnenos Axouch (Greek: Ιωάννης Κομνηνός Ἀξούχος, romanized: Iōannēs Komnēnos Axouch) was Emperor of Trebizond from 1235 to 1238. One editor reads...
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    either secular or ecclesiastical. The guard of the megas domestikos John Axouch was large enough to put down an outbreak of rioting between Byzantine...
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  • II of Sicily, whose Normans had captured Corfu. The megas domestikos John Axouch assumed command of the land forces, and Stephen was entrusted with the...
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    his support behind his namesake nephew. However, the intervention of John Axouch, the commander-in-chief of the army, was decisive in securing the throne...
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  • descending from both the Komnenoi and the Axouch. His father was the distinguished protostrator Alexios Axouch. The Axouchoi were a family of Turkish origin...
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  • Syrmia John Apokaukos John Apokaukos (died 1345) John Athalarichos John Axouch John Bagnell Bury John Belissariotes John Cassian John Chaldos John Chauderon...
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    responsibility of government with the parakoimomenos, but the megas domestikos John Axouch now dominated the court. Towards the end of his life, both he and his...
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  • Siege of Laodicea (1119) (category John II Komnenos)
    the Byzantine city of Philadelphia, John built a fortified camp and sent a force under the Grand Domestic John Axouch to attack Laodicea. The city was defended...
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    and the megas stratopedarchēs. It was not until the award of the title to John Kantakouzenos in the 1320s that the office firmly established itself once...
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    chronologically is a response to a question posed by the Grand Domestic John Axouch, Pros ton megan Domestikon erotesanta peri tou hagiou Pneumatos. Although...
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  • Doukas, brother-in-law of Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081–1118), and Alexios Axouch, who had married the niece of Manuel I Komnenos (r. 1143–1180). Writing...
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    heretics in 1140. Axouch was sufficiently impressed with this discussion to urge Nerses to write an exposition of the Armenian faith which Axouch could then...
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    Chrysoberges. In the spring of 1166, Béla-Alexios accompanied protostrator Alexios Axouch, who led a Byzantine army against Hungary in retaliation for a new Hungarian...
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  • fifty silken robes. During his captivity, Cilicia was governed by Alexios Axouch and then by Andronikos I Komnenos who seduced Philippa, the beautiful sister...
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    Empire John I used the surname Komnenos Axouchos, possibly to stress matrilineal ancestry from the prominent 12th-century general Alexios Axouch. George...
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  • the empire. Andonikos was arrested and confined by the emperor. Alexios Axouch (1167) – the grand-nephew of Manuel I and governor of Cilicia, he was accused...
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    attempt at reconquest. Following the defeat, the Byzantine diplomat Alexios Axouch arrived at the Byzantine base of Ancona in order to negotiate a favorable...
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  • 1200), son of the protostrator Alexios Axouch. Alexios is known to have had two sons, the future emperors John I and Manuel I, and a daughter who married...
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    Komnenos, also known as Komnenus or Comnenos, including its cadet branches of Axouch, Axouchos or Afouxechos, from Trebizond, Byzantine and Trebizond emperors...
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