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Anna Comnena 1083-1148
Byzantine princess

The daughter of Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, she tried in vain to secure the imperial crown, and failed in her attempt to overthrow or poison her brother (1118). Disappointed and ashamed, she withdrew from the court, and sought solace in literature. On the death of her husband (1137), she wrote a life of her father, the Alexiad, which contains an account of the First Crusade.