Manuel Komnenos (son of Andronikos I)

Manuel Komnenos (1145–after 1185), eldest son of Andronikos I, was the ancestor of the Grand Komnenoi of Trebizond. Under Manuel I he served as envoy to the Russian principalities, and in 1164 helped his father escape from Constantinople. Jailed for opposing the regent Maria, he was freed in 1182.

He condemned Andronikos' persecution of the aristocracy and refused to oversee Maria's execution. Passed over for the succession, he was made sebastokrator while his brother John became co-emperor. In 1185 Isaac II Angelos had him blinded; his sons Alexios and David founded the Empire of Trebizond in 1204.