Editing Andronikos I Komnenos (section)

=== Exile ===
[[File:Theodora Jerusalem.jpg|thumb|14th-century depiction of [[Theodora Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem|Theodora Komnene]]|170px]]
In 1167,{{Sfn|Venning|2015|p=156}} Andronikos deserted his post in Cilicia and traveled to [[Antioch]], where he seduced [[Philippa of Antioch]].{{Sfn|Kaldellis|2024|p=697}} Philippa was the sister of both Manuel's second wife [[Maria of Antioch|Maria]]{{Sfn|Kaldellis|2024|p=697}} and [[Bohemond III of Antioch|Bohemond III]], the reigning [[prince of Antioch]].{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} The affair caused a scandal{{Sfn|Hamilton|2005|p=173}} and threatened to jeopardize Manuel's foreign policy.{{Sfn|Kaldellis|2024|p=697}} Bohemond formally complained to the emperor that Andronikos was neglecting his duties in Cilicia and instead dallying with Philippa.{{Sfn|Venning|2015|p=156}} Manuel was outraged and immediately recalled Andronikos,{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} replacing him as governor in Cilicia with [[Constantine Kalamanos]].{{Sfn|Venning|2015|p=156}} Kalamanos was also dispatched to attempt to wed Philippa. Upon meeting Kalamanos, the princess refused to address him by name, berated him for being short, and derided Manuel as "stupid and simple-minded" for believing she would forsake Andronikos for a man from such an obscure family line.{{sfn|Choniates|1984|p=80}} Andronikos refused to return home and instead fled with Philippa to [[Jerusalem]],{{Sfn|Venning|2015|p=156}} where [[King Amalric]] gave him [[Beirut]] as a fief to govern.{{Sfn|Venning|2015|p=156}}{{Sfn|Hamilton|2005|p=173}}

Andronikos left Philippa in 1168{{Sfn|Venning|2015|p=156}} and instead seduced the dowager queen [[Theodora Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem|Theodora Komnene]], widow of Amalric's brother Baldwin III and daughter of Andronikos's cousin [[Isaac Komnenos (son of John II)|Isaac]].{{Sfn|Kaldellis|2024|p=697}} Theodora was 21 years old at the time.{{Sfn|Norwich|1998|loc=The Fourth Crusade}}{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} The historian [[John Julius Norwich]] has described Theodora as the love of Andronikos's life,{{Sfn|Norwich|1998|loc=The Fourth Crusade}}{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} though their close relation made them unable to marry.{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} Manuel was furious over this affair as well and again ordered Andronikos to return home. Fearing that Amalric would back Manuel, Andronikos feigned acceptance. He traveled to [[Acre, Israel|Acre]] without Theodora, though she suddenly arrived after him and the two eloped together to the court of [[Nur al-Din Zengi]] in [[Damascus]].{{Sfn|Venning|2015|p=156}} The arrival of a Byzantine prince and a dowager-queen of Jerusalem in Damascus became a sensation in the [[Muslim world]] and they were welcomed with much enthusiasm.{{Sfn|Hamilton|2018|loc=Women in the Crusader States: the Queens of Jerusalem 1100–1190}}

Andronikos and Theodora traveled from court to court for several years,{{Sfn|Kaldellis|2024|p=697}} making their way through [[Anatolia]] and the [[Caucasus]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=975}} They were eventually received by [[George III of Georgia]] and Andronikos was granted estates in [[Kakheti]]a. In 1173 or 1174, Andronikos accompanied George on a military expedition to [[Shirvan]] up to the [[Caspian Sea|Caspian]] shores, where the Georgians recaptured the fortress of [[Shabaran]] from invaders from [[Derbent|Darband]] for his cousin, the [[Shirvanshah]] [[Akhsitan I]].{{sfn|Minorsky|1945|pp=557–558}}

Andronikos and Theodora eventually settled in [[Şebinkarahisar|Koloneia]] in northeastern Anatolia, just beyond the frontier of the Byzantine Empire.{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} Their peaceful life there came to an end when imperial officials captured Theodora{{Sfn|Kaldellis|2024|p=697}} and their two children and brought them to Constantinople.{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} After over a decade in exile,{{Sfn|Kislinger|2019|p=77}} Andronikos returned to Constantinople in 1180 and theatrically pleaded for forgiveness from Manuel with a chain around his neck,{{Sfn|Kaldellis|2024|p=697}} begging that Theodora and the children be returned.{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} The two reconciled, and Andronikos was sent to govern [[Paphlagonia]],{{Sfn|Kaldellis|2024|p=697}} where he lived with Theodora in a castle on the [[Black Sea]] coast.{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} The arrangement was understood as internal exile{{Sfn|Magdalino|2008|p=659}} and peaceful retirement.{{Sfn|Norwich|2018|loc=Against Andronicus}} Theodora's ultimate fate is not known, though she likely died before Andronikos's return to imperial politics in 1182.{{Sfn|Hamilton|2018|loc=Women in the Crusader States: the Queens of Jerusalem 1100–1190}}