Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Rufu rwaManuel musi wa24 Gunyana 1180, rwakaratidza shanduko muhupenyu hweHumambo hweByzantine. Apo Manuel akafa, akatsiviwa nomwanakomana wake muduku Alexios II Komnenos, uyo akanga ari pasi pokutarisirwa namambokadzi Maria. Mufambiro wake wakaita kuti vanhu vashatirwe, uye mhirizhonga yakazotevera, yakasvika pakurwisana kwevagari vomunyika imwe chete, yakapa mukana wokuchiva kwehanzvadzi yaManuel, Andronikos I Komnenos (r. 1183<unk>1185), mwanakomana waIsaac Komnenos. Andronikos akasiya basa rake muna 1182, uye akaenda kuConstantinople neuto iro (maererano nemanyuko asiri eByzantine) raisanganisira mauto echiMuslim. Kusvika kwake kwakakurumidza kuteverwa nokuurawa kwavagari vechiLatin
, iyo yakanga yakanangidzirwa kuvatengesi veVenetian avo vakanga vagara mune dzimwe nhamba muConstantinople. Anotendwa kuva akaronga kupondwa kwehanzvadzi yaAlexius II Maria the Porphyrogenita nomurume wake Renier weMontferrat, kunyange zvazvo Maria pachake akanga amukurudzira kupindira. Murimi wacho akanzi aiva muEtiopia ainzi Pterygeonites. Nokukurumidza pashure pacho akaita kuti Mambokadzi Maria asungwe uye ipapo aurayiwe, naPterygeonites uye "hetaireiarches" Constantine Tripsychos. Alexios II akamanikidzwa kubvuma Andronikos semumwe wake muumambo, asi akazourayiwa; kuuraya kwakaitwa naTripsychos, Theodore Dadibrenos naStephen Hagiochristophorites. Andronikos, muna 1183 mambo bedzi, akaroora Agnes weFrance, mwana aiva namakore gumi namaviri okukura uyo akanga ambovimbiswa kuroorwa naAlexios II. Agnes aiva mwanasikana waMambo Louis VII weFrance nomudzimai wake wechitatu Adèle weChampagne. Pakazosvika November 1183, Andronikos akabatanidza mwanakomana wake muduku womutemo John Komnenos pachigaro.