Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus: Biography, Facts and Career

Isaac Doukas Komnenos (or Ducas Comnenus, c. 1155 – 1195/1196) was a claimant to the Byzantine Empire and the ruler of Cyprus from 1185 to 1191. Contemporary sources commonly refer to him as the emperor of Cyprus. He lost the island to King Richard I of England during the Third Crusade.

== Family == Isaac of Cyprus was a member of the royal Komnenos family. His grandfather Isaac had been bypassed by a younger brother, Manuel I Komnenos, in the succession to the Byzantine throne, instead taking the auxiliary position of sebastokrator. With his first wife Theodora Kamaterina (d. 1144) Isaac the sebastokrator had a daughter, Irene Komnene, who married one Doukas Kamateros and gave birth to Isaac of Cyprus, c. 1155.

== Life ==

Isaac was the son of an otherwise obscure Byzantine aristocrat, Doukas Kamateros, and Irene Komnene, daughter of sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos. He married an Armenian princess on Cyprus.

=== Governor and prison === He was appointed governor of Isauria and the town of Tarsus by Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and started a war against the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and was captured by its soldiers. Manuel I died in 1180 and his successors did not immediately attempt to rescue...

Quick facts about Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus

• Full name: Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus
• Born: 1155-01-01
• Nationality: Byzantine Empire
• Known as: Royal
• Wikidata ID: Q27424

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