Alexios II of Trebizond

Alexios II Megas Komnenos
Emperor and Autocrat of all the East, of the Iberians and of Perateia
Coin depicting Alexios II Megas Komnenos mounted on a horse
Emperor of Trebizond
Reign16 August 1297 – 3 May 1330
PredecessorJohn II
SuccessorAndronikos III
Born1282
Died3 May 1330(1330-05-03) (aged 47–48)
SpouseDjiadjak Jaqeli
IssueAndronikos III Megas Komnenos
Basil Megas Komnenos
Michael Anachoutlou
George Achpougas
Anna Anachoutlou
Eudokia
DynastyKomnenos
FatherJohn II Megas Komnenos
MotherEudokia Palaiologina

Alexios II Megas Komnenos[1] (Greek: Αλέξιος Μέγας Κομνηνός, romanizedAlexios Megas Komnēnos; Sept./Dec. 1282 – 3 May 1330) was Emperor of Trebizond from 1297 to 1330. He was the elder son of John II and Eudokia Palaiologina.

Alexios proved to be a skillful and energetic ruler, under whose rule the Empire of Trebizond reached the climax of its prosperity. He rebuffed the inroads of the marauding Turks, and adequately handled the encroachment of Genoa and Venice. He also cultivated the arts and sciences at his court[2] serving as a patron to the Byzantine astronomer Gregory Chioniades and the scholar Constantine Loukites.[3]

  1. ^ Lampsidis Odysseus has published a note written in 1332 where the writer calls Alexios "Alexios Grand Komnenos Palaiologos". ("Grand Comnène Paléologue", Revue des études byzantines, 42 (1984), pp. 225–228) It is uncertain if this was the proper style of his name.
  2. ^ Zehiroğlu, A.M. "Astronomy in the Trebizond Empire", (2016), pp. 2–5
  3. ^ Jan Olof Rosenquvist, "Byzantine Trebizond, A Provincial Literary Landscape," Byzantino-Nordica 2004: Papers Presented at the International Symposium of Byzantine Studies Held on 7–11 May 2004 in Tartu, Estonia, ed. Ivo Volt, Janika Päll (Tartu: University Press, 2005), pp. 39–41