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Anna Comnena (sh)




born Dec. 2, 1083
died งใ 1153

Byzantine historian.

Daughter of the emperor Alexius I Comnenus, she conspired with her mother against her brother John II Comnenus; when the plot was discovered, she was forced to enter a convent. There she wrote the Alexiad, a biography of her father and a pro-Byzantine account of the early Crusades.