Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - Ko te matenga o Manuel i te 24 o Mahuru 1180, i tohu i te hurihanga i roto i nga waimarie o te Emepaea o Byzantine. I te matenga o Manuel, i whai muri i a ia tana tama taitamariki a Alexios II Komnenos, i raro i te kaitiaki o te Empress Maria. Ko tana whanonga i whakaohooho i te riri a te iwi, me nga raru e whai ake nei, tata tonu ki te pakanga a-iwi, i whai waahi ki te wawata o te whanaunga o Manuel, a Andronikos I Komnenos (r. 1183<unk>1185), tama a Ihaka Komnenos. I mahue a Andronikos i tana reti i te 1182, ka haere ki Constantinople me tetahi ope (e ai ki nga puna ehara i te Byzantine) tae atu ki nga roopu Mahometa. I muri tata mai i tana taenga mai, ka patua nga tangata o te rohe Latina
, i arotahi ki nga kaihokohoko Venetian i noho i etahi tau i Constantinople. I whakaponohia ia i whakarite i te whakamate o te tuakana o Alexios II a Maria te Porphyrogenita me tana tane a Renier o Montferrat, ahakoa ko Maria ano i akiaki ia ia ki te whakauru. I kīia ko te kaipatu te eunuch Pterygeonites. I muri tata mai ka mauheretia a Empress Maria, katahi ka patua e Pterygeonites me te "hetaireiarches" Constantine Tripsychos. I akiakihia a Alexios II ki te whakaae ki a Andronikos hei hoa mahi i te rangatiratanga, engari i whakamatea ia; ko Tripsychos, Theodore Dadibrenos me Stephen Hagiochristophorites i mahi i te patu. Ko Andronikos, i te 1183 ko te emepara anake, i marena ki a Agnes o France, he tamaiti tekau ma rua tau te pakeke i mua i whakaipoipo ki a Alexios II. Ko Agnes te tamahine a Kingi Louis VII o France me tana wahine tuatoru a Adèle o Champagne. I te marama o Whiringa-a-rangi 1183, ka uru atu a Andronikos ki tana tama taitamariki a John Komnenos i runga i te torona.