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Birth:          BEF 1020 
Death:          14 Oct 1077 

Notes
d as the monk Antonios
m bef 1066
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andronikos_Doukas_(cousin_of_Michael_VII)
Andronikos Doukas, Latinized as Andronicus Ducas, (Greek: ??d??????? ????a?; 
died 14 October 1077) was a protovestiarios and protoproedros of the Byzantine 
Empire.
Life[edit]

Andronikos Doukas was son of the Caesar John Doukas and Eirene Pegonitissa. His 
father was a brother of Emperor Constantine X Doukas. His maternal grandfather was 
Niketas Pegonites. Andronikos himself was a first cousin of Michael VII Doukas.

In 1071 Andronikos was the commander of a section of the Byzantine army in the 
campaign of Romanos IV Diogenes against the Seljuk Turks of Alp Arslan. 
Commanding the rearguard of the army during the Battle of Manzikert, Andronikos 
announced that the emperor had been cut down and deserted from the battlefield. He 
was widely blamed for causing the crushing defeat of the Byzantine forces and the 
subsequent capture of Romanos IV by the enemy.

In 1072, after Romanos had been released by Alp Arslan, Andronikos and his brother 
Constantine were sent out by Michael VII and their father the Caesar John to intercept 
him. They defeated Romanos and hunted him down in Cilicia. It was Andronikos who 
finally obtained Romanos' surrender and conducted him towards Constantinople. In 
spite of his former hatred for the deposed emperor, Andronikos is said to have 
opposed his blinding on 29 June 1072.

In an act of 1073, he is recorded with his titles as protoproedros, protovestiarios and 
megas domestikos, which Michael Attaleiates clarifies as being the post of domestikos 
ton scholon of the East, which he had been given when sent against Diogenes.[1]

In 1074, together with his father, Andronikos commanded the imperial army against the 
rebel mercenaries led by Roussel de Bailleul. Both were captured by the rebels, who 
released the badly wounded Andronikos to allow him to seek proper medical treatment 
in Constantinople. There he recovered for a few years, but in October 1077 died of an 
edema.

Family[edit]

Andronikos Doukas married Maria of Bulgaria, daughter of Troian, a son of Emperor 
Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria. They had at least five children:
Michael Doukas, protostrator.
John Doukas, megas doux.
Irene Doukaina, who married Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
Anna Doukaina, who married George Palaiologos.
Theodora Doukaina, a nun.

Parents
DOUKAS Ionnes (John) (ABT 1000 - ABT 1088)
PEGONITISSA Eirene (ABT 1000 - ABT 1060)

Siblings
DOUKAS Andronikos (BEF 1020 - 14 Oct 1077)

Marriage To OF WEST BULGARIA Maria (ABT 1020 - BEF 1118)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
OF WEST BULGARIA Troianos (Trajan) (ABT  980 - )
____ Kontostephane (ABT  980 - )

Children by OF WEST BULGARIA Maria ABT 1020 - BEF 1118
DOUKAS Michael (ABT 1061 - ABT 1108)
DOUKAINA Eirene (Irene) "Augusta" (1066 - 19 Feb 1127)

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