1134, and was later venerated as Saint Irene. John II and Irene had 8 children: Alexios Komnenos (October 1106 – summer 1142), co-emperor from 1119 to 1142 Maria Komnene (twin to Alexios), who married John Roger Dalassenos Andronikos Komnenos (died 1142) Anna Komnene ( – after 1149), who married the admiral Stephen Kontostephanos, who died in battle in 1149. The couple had four children. Isaac Komnenos ( – after 1154), raised to sebastokrator in 1122, he was superseded in the succession in favour of Manuel in 1143; married twice and had several children. Theodora Komnene ( – before May 1157), who married the military commander Manuel Anemas, who was killed in action, after which she entered a monastery. The couple had at least four children. Eudokia Komnene ( – before 1150), who married the military commander Theodore Vatatzes. She had at least six children, but died early. Manuel I Komnenos (28 November 1118 – 21 September 1180), became emperor, and reigned 1143–1180. Ancestry See also Byzantium under the Komnenos dynasty Komnenian army List of Byzantine emperors Notes External links John II Comnenus' Hungarian campaigns An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors Mosaic of John Komnenos, Eirene and Alexios in Hagia Sophia References Sources Primary Niketas Choniates, critical edition and translation by John Kinnamos, critical edition and translation by William of Tyre, Historia Rerum in Partibus Transmarinis Gestarum (A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea), translated by E. A. Babock and A. C. Krey (Columbia University Press, 1943). See the original text in the Latin library. Secondary Angold, Michael, (1984) The Byzantine Empire 1025–1204, a political history, Longman. Angold, Michael, (1995) Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081–1261. Cambridge University Press.Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium Bernard, F. and Demoen, K. (2013) Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Ashgate Publishing Bucossi, Alessandra and Suarez, Alex R. (2016) John II Komnenos, emperor of Byzantium: in the shadow of father and son, Routledge. Dennis, G.T. (2001) Death in Byzantium, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 55, pp. 1–7, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University Finlay, George (1854), History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from 1057–1453, Volume 2, William Blackwood & Sons Harris, Jonathan (2014), Byzantium and the Crusades, Bloomsbury, 2nd ed. Linardou, K. (2016) "Imperial Impersonations", in John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium: In the Shadow of Father and Son, Bucossi, A. and Suarez, A.R. (eds.) pp. 155–182, Routledge, Abingdon