Manuel I of Trebizond

Manuel I Megas Komnenos
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans
Fresco from Hagia Sophia depicting Emperor Manuel I Megas Komnenos
Emperor of Trebizond Claimant Byzantine Emperor
Reign	1238 – March 1263
Predecessor	John I
Successor	Andronikos II
Died	1263
Spouse	Anna Xylaloe Rusudan of Georgia, Empress of Trebizond Irene Syrikaina
Issue	Andronikos II Komnenos Theodora Megale Komnene George Megas Komnenos John II Megas Komnenos
Dynasty	Komnenos
Father	Alexios I

Manuel I Megas Komnenos (Greek: Μανουήλ Κομνηνός;^[a] died March 1263) was Emperor of Trebizond from 1238 until his death. He was the son of Emperor Alexios I and his wife, Theodora. At the time Manuel reigned, the Empire of Trebizond comprised a band of territory stretching along the southern coast of the Black Sea. Although Michael Panaretos, a 14th-century Trapezuntine chronicler, calls Manuel "the greatest general and the most fortunate" and states he ruled "virtuously in the eyes of God", the only event he documents for Manuel's reign is a catastrophic fire striking the city of Trebizond in January 1253.^[2] The major events of his reign are known from external sources, most important of which is the recovery of Sinope in 1254, which had been lost to the Sultanate of Rum forty years before.

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