The CHILDREN OF ALEXIOS KOMNENOS: Anna Komnene, Maria Komnene, Emperor John II. | EPISODE 1

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I greatly value videos that use "Roman Empire" instead of "Byzantine Empire" name.

[AlexS-ojqf]

Komnenian Dynatsy is very rare, where they got 3 good Emperor back to back

[denisestevens]

She is my Great Mother ♡ through Isabella of Champagne.

[georgechristman]

Are you going to cover the rest of Alexios' children ( Andronikos, Isaac etc)?

[nillynush]

Oh how I wait for Dovah's coverage of John's reign.

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The hollywoodian portraits of the protagonists are a profanation in view of the fact that they are allready represented by marvellous contemporary mosaics.

[rickyyacine]

John the good is a giga chad 😇😇😇😢😢😢 rip

[gauthiersublett]

no subtitle possible in an other language

[SpartanLeonidas]

⬇️ *[John III Doukas Vatatzes to the Pope]* ⬇️

".. We have no need of wisdom to understand what your throne is and how it was established. *But how is it that you overlook or do not understand with what wisdom the imperial throne was allotted to OUR RACE by Constantine the Great? Who is unaware that the lot of his succession fell to OUR PEOPLE and that we are his successors and inheritors.* You ask me not to overlook your throne and its privileges, but we too have our claims, as *you should see and recognize, our rights of government and of authority over Constantinople which go back over a thousand years to Constantine the Great. The ancestors of our majesty, of the families of Ducas & Comneni—let me not mention the others—came from the "GREEK" RACE and for many centuries held sway over Constantinople* .."

*-John III Doukas Vatatzes*
[Letter to Pope Gregory IX]