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Nel 978 difese Nicea contro Skloros; ebbe due mogli, di cui non sappia mo i nomi. http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZANTIUM%2010571204.ht m MANUEL "Erotikos" Komnenos, son of --- (-before 1025). A Thracian s oldier, originally from Comne near Adrianople. He became a general i n the army of Emperor Basileios II and received lands from him in th e Castamon district of Paphlagonia, where he built the castle known a s Castra Komnenon [Runciman, S. (1951, 1952 and 1954) ''A History of t he Crusades'' (Penguin Books, 1978), Vol 1, p. 55]. Cedrenus names "i n Paphlagoniam Castamonem" as "domus Isaacii Comneni" but does not sta te that it was built by his father [Cedrenus II, col. 354]. The ''Alex eiad'' names "Manuel, father of the previous emperor Isaakios Komneno s and his brother Ioannes (who was my grandfather on the paternal side )" when recording that he was "promoted supreme commander of all the e ast by the then emperor Basileios" [''Alexeiad'', Book 11, p. 335]. Ce drenus records that "Manuelum Eroticum, nobili genere orto" fought i n the war against Bardas Skleros, dated to [978] [Cedrenus II, col. 15 1]. Nikeforos Bryennios records that Manuel entrusted his sons to th e emperor (Basileios II) when dying [Meineke, A. (ed.) (1836) ''Ioanne s Cinnamus, Nicephorus Bryennius, Corpus Scriptorum Historiæ Byzantin æ'' (Bonn), Nikephoros Bryennios Liber I, 1, p. 17]. m ([1005]) --- . The name of Manuel's wife is not known. Nikeforos Bryennios record s that she had been dead for a long time when her husband entrusted th eir sons to the emperor [Nikephoros Bryennios Liber I, 1, p. 17]. Manu el Komnenos & his wife had three children.