John I of Trebizond

John I of Trebizond

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 Axuchina, 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.

References

W. Miller, "Trebizond: The Last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era", Chicago, 1926.


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