Byzantine defeat at Dorystolon. During the flight, Michael's horse slipped and he fell, but a soldier gave him his own horse, allowing him to rejoin the emperor's party. A few years later, however, in 1091, he participated in the final victory over the Pechenegs at the Battle of Levounion. After that, he is recorded as having attended the synod of 1094 that condemned Leo of Chalcedon, and in a letter during the Norman invasion of 1107–1108, according to which Michael was dispatched to Epirus to raise troops. He died after a prolonged illness on a 9 January. The year is unknown, however it was sometime before 1117 when he is listed as dead in the typikon of the Kecharitomene Monastery. Family Through his marriage to an unnamed woman, he had several children. Only one is attested with certainty, Constantine Doukas, a sebastos and governor of the region of the Vardar river circa 1118. Demetrios I. Polemis further identifies two Doukas women as two of Michael's daughters. The first is a certain Theodora Doukaina, attested in an epigram as married to a Theodore. Polemis considers her as the mother of Euphrosyne Doukaina, Michael's granddaughter, whose father was also named Theodore. The second is Irene Doukaina, the wife of Gregory Kamateros, a man of humble origin who rose to high office under Alexios Komnenos and his successor, John II Komnenos (r. 1118–1143). Another daughter, married to a certain John, is unnamed, and it is possible that a poem by Nicholas Kallikles refers to another son. References Sources 1060s births 12th-century deaths 11th-century Byzantine people 12th-century Byzantine people Byzantine generals Komnenos dynasty Michael Generals of Alexios I Komnenos Protostratores Sebastoi