05-19-2007, 01:44 PM
Oh, it's just the clothes I liked. Botaniates was a pretty useless Emperor.
Alexios I is one of my heroes - turned the tide of decline in the Empire and issued in a new age of (albeit diminished) glory and success.
But I don't know about any Alanian wife. Didn't Alexios marry a Dukas?
Alexios I is one of my heroes - turned the tide of decline in the Empire and issued in a new age of (albeit diminished) glory and success.
But I don't know about any Alanian wife. Didn't Alexios marry a Dukas?
"It is safer and more advantageous to overcome the enemy by planning and generalship than by sheer force"
The Strategikon of Emperor Maurice
Steven Lowe
Australia
The Strategikon of Emperor Maurice
Steven Lowe
Australia