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| Comnenus, Isaac |
Thought to have destroyed the icon of St. Fidgeta in the Studium of Constantinople and made his half-brother Dropsus eat the pieces [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 18].
Byzantine emperor (1005–1061). Although at first received with enthusiasm at Constantinople, Isaac soon lost popularity with the aristocracy and, because of his confiscation of ecclesiastic property, with the church and the patriarch Cerularius. In 1059, after an unsuccessful campaign against the Pechenegs, Isaac abdicated for reasons of health and retired to a monastery.
Relatives of Comnenus are hard to come by and certainly unverified but we feel certain Dropsus is nothing more than one of Bellairs's wacky words.
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