Leo Diogenes
1069 – 1087 · Generation XXVIII · co-emperor (r. 1070–1071) · Komnenos
Leo (AD 1069 – 1087). co-emperor (r. 1070–1071). Son of Romanos IV; killed at Dyrrhachium 1087. Born in the purple, he was probably crowned co-emperor with his brother during their father's reign, though his imperial standing sits oddly in the record: no coin of Romanos shows him, yet a surviving letter styles him basileus, and Anna Komnene describes both him and his brother Nikephoros wearing the diadem and the scarlet footwear that marked out an emperor. After Romanos fell, the boys were banished to a monastery with their mother until Alexios I Komnenos took them in and brought them up as if they were his own. Leo fought in Alexios's wars, and in a pitched battle against the Pechenegs he was drawn away from the emperor's side and struck down near the enemy's wagons, dying on the field.
One of 14 people of Komnenos (1081–1185) in this archive. The house of the Komnenian restoration, ruling through a web of marriages to its own kin.
Line of descent: Constantine Diogenes → Romanos IV Diogenes → Leo Diogenes.
Parents
- Romanos IV Diogenes (1030 – 1072)
- Eudokia Makrembolitissa (1021 – 1096)
Siblings
- Michael VII Doukas (1050 – 1090) (half)
- Andronikos Doukas (1057 – 1077) (half)
- Konstantios Doukas (1060 – 1081) (half)
- Nikephoros Diogenes (1069 – 1094)