A Thracian soldier, originally from Comne near Adrianople. He became a general in the army of Emperor Basileios II and received lands from him in the Castamon district of Paphlagonia, where he built the castle known as Castra Komnenon. Cedrenus names "in Paphlagoniam Castamonem" as "domus Isaacii Comneni" but does not state that it was built by his father. The Alexeiad names "Manuel, father of the previous emperor Isaakios Komnenos and his brother Ioannes (who was my grandfather on the paternal side)" when recording that he was "promoted supreme commander of all the east by the then emperor Basileios". Cedrenus records that "Manuelum Eroticum, nobili genere orto" fought in the war against Bardas Skleros, dated to [978]. Nikeforos Bryennios records that Manuel entrusted his sons to the emperor (Basileios II) when dying. Nikeforos
Bryennios records that [Manuel's wife] had been dead for a long time when her husband entrusted their sons to the emperor. 1
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