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John I of Trebizond
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John I Megas Komnenos Axouchos (Greek: Ιωάννης Α΄ Μέγας Κομνηνός Αξούχος, Iōannēs I Megas Komnēnos Axoukhos), was Emperor of Trebizond from 1235 to 1238. He was the eldest son of Alexios I of Trebizond and Theodora Axouchina, and was perhaps still a minor at the time of his father's death in 1222, as the throne passed to his brother-in-law, Andronikos I Gidos. John succeeded on his brother-in-law's death in 1235 and had a brief and uneventful reign of three years, dying in 1238 from an accident while playing polo, a fashionable game among the Byzantine nobility. His young son Ioannikios was put into a monastery and his second brother Manuel I ascended the throne, the second time a son was passed over in favour of another relative. Some sources suggest Ioannikios reigned briefly before abdicating and became a monk.
| Preceded by Andronikos I |
Emperor of Trebizond 1235–1238 |
Succeeded by Manuel I |
W. Miller, Trebizond: The Last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era, Chicago, 1926.