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124:. Although his forces could have taken the city by storm, Kontostephanos allowed himself to be involved in negotiations with Emma, which she dragged on until Norman reinforcements arrived. Defeated in battle by the newly arrived Norman troops, Kontostephanos and his fleet were forced to withdraw to the Albanian coast. Making 139:
After Bohemond's successful landing, the emperor charged Kontostephanos with intercepting the Norman supply convoys, but here too he failed. After receiving letters from Landulf detailing Kontostephanos's incompetence, Alexios finally dismissed him in summer 1108 and replaced him with
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to intercept the Normans. On his own initiative, however, Kontostephanos resolved to attack the city of
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Isaac Kontostephanos first appears in 1080, during the imperial campaign against the rebel
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family, which rose to great prominence in the 12th century as it intermarried with the
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Isaac was the progenitor of the most important branch of the
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By 1105, Kontostephanos had become a senior admiral (
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Index

Greek
Byzantine
Alexios I Komnenos
wars
Normans
Nikephoros Melissenos
Turkish
George Palaiologos
protonobelissimos
Blachernae
doux
Byzantine fleet
Norman
Bohemond
Alexios I Komnenos
megas doux
Landulf
Dyrrhachium
Otranto
Emma of Hauteville
Aulon
Strait of Otranto
Himara
Marianos Maurokatakalon
Kontostephanos
Komnenoi
Doukai
Angeloi
panhypersebastos
Stephen Kontostephanos

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