id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9290 John II Komnenos - Wikipedia .html text/html 8341 795 68 Also known as "John the Beautiful" or "John the Good" (Kaloïōannēs), he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina and the second emperor to rule during the Komnenian restoration of the Byzantine Empire. John has been assessed as the greatest of the Komnenian emperors.[1] In the course of the quarter-century of his reign, John made alliances with the Holy Roman Empire in the west, decisively defeated the Pechenegs, Hungarians and Serbs in the Balkans, and personally led numerous campaigns against the Turks in Asia Minor. (2016) John II Komnenos, emperor of Byzantium: in the shadow of father and son, Routledge. (2016) "Imperial Impersonations", in John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium: In the Shadow of Father and Son, Bucossi, A. (2016) "The Triumph of 1133", in John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium: In the Shadow of Father and Son, Bucossi, A. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9290.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9290.txt