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Anna Komnene

Type Figure Region Byzantine Empire Time 1083–1153 Also known as Anna Komnene、Anna Comnena、Ἄννα Κομνηνή

Anna Komnene (1083–1153) was a Byzantine princess and historian, daughter of Alexios I.…

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  1. 1091–1100Constantinople · Byzantine EmpireAnna received a classical education in the court of her father Alexios I, studying philosophy, medicine and history, and personally witnessed the aftermath of the Pecheneg wars and the passage of the Crusaders.
  2. 1097–1148Constantinople · Byzantine EmpireIn 1097 Anna married Nikephoros Bryennios, after which she devoted herself for many years to writing the Alexiad, integrating court historical materials with her own eyewitness accounts, completed around 1148.

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