Komnenos, an illegitimate son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, in October 1183. Her husband became involved in a conspiracy against Andronikos and was blinded and imprisoned, while Irene entered a monastery. His second marriage to Anna of France, and his liaisons with his other mistresses, remained childless. In popular culture Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night (Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975), as well as Ange Vlachos' Their Most Serene Majesties (Vanguard Press, 1964). He is mentioned in the Louis L'Amour medieval historical novel, The Walking Drum, with his gruesome death foreseen by the protagonist in a vision. He is among the main characters of the historical novel Agnes of France (1980, ) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis (b. 1920). The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes. The novel ends with the death of Andronikos. Andronikos was portrayed in the novel Baudolino by Umberto Eco, with much detail being given to his grisly end. See also Andrey Bogolyubsky List of Byzantine emperors Notes References https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andronicus-I-Comnenus Further reading Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 48. Grünbart, Michael, 'Die Macht des Historiographen – Andronikos (I.) Komnenos und sein Bild', in Zbornik Radova Vizantinoloskog Instituta 48, 2011, pp. 75–85 Harris, Jonathan, Byzantium and the Crusades, Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2014. Harris, Jonathan, 'Collusion with the infidel as a pretext for military action against Byzantium', in Clash of Cultures: the Languages of Love and Hate, ed. Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson, Brepols, 2012, pp. 99–117. Mihai Tiuliumeanu, Andronic I Comnenul, Iași, 2000. Eustathios of Thessaloniki 'The Capture of Thessaloniki' (Byzantina Australiensia 8), Canberra 1988. The full text of a lecture by John Melville-Jones on the life of this emperor is located at: . It is accompanied by an extensive bibliography. Andronikos 01 Byzantine people of the Crusades 12th-century Byzantine emperors Andronikos Komnenos Andronikos Komnenos Eastern Orthodox monarchs Executed Byzantine people Executed monarchs Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Seljuk wars People executed by dismemberment Lynching deaths 12th-century executions by the Byzantine Empire