3. Matthew of Edessa, II.72, p. 144.
4. J-C. Cheynet and D. Theodoridis, Sceaux byzantins de la collection D. Theodoridis (Paris, 2010), pp. 26–8.
5. 1081年時，尼基弗魯斯·帕萊奧羅格斯仍然擔任着這個職務。Nikephoros Bryennios, III.15, p. 239.
6. J-C. Cheynet and J-F. Vannier, Etudes Prosopographiques (Paris, 1986), pp. 57–74; Cheynet and Theodoridis, Sceaux byzantins, pp. 54– 6; C. MacEvitt, The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance (Philadelphia, 2008), pp. 41–2.
7. 例如，Michael Angold, The Byzantine Empire 1025–1204 (London, 1984), pp. 112–13; France, Victory in the East, pp. 155–6; J. Flori, La Première Croisade: l'Occident chrétien contre l'Islam aux origines des idéologies occidentales (Paris, 2001), p. 64; P. Magdalino, 'The Medieval Empire (780–1204)' in C. Mango (ed.),The Oxford History of Byzantium, p. 185; J. Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades (London, 2003), pp. 47, 55. Phillips, Holy Warriors, p. 15.
8. Anna Komnene, III.9, p. 100.
9. Ibid.
10. Anna Komnene, II.6, p. 65.
11. Anna Komnene, II.3, pp. 54–5.
12. J. Darrouzès, Notitiae episcopatuum ecclesiae constantinopolitanae (Paris, 1981), pp. 123–4, 134–5.
13. J-C. Cheynet, 'La résistance aux Turcs en Asie Mineure entre Mantzikert et la Première Croisade', in Eupsykhia: Mélanges offerts à Hélène Ahrweiler, 2 vols. (Paris, 1998), 1, pp. 131–47.
14. 關於阿萊克修斯1081年時對自己手下的軍隊懷有的憂懼之情，見 Anna Komnene, II.9, p. 71; for the circumstances behind the belated coronation of Alexios' wife, Eirene, III.2, pp. 81–4.
15. Anna Komnene, III.5, pp. 89–91.
16. Anna Komnene, III.11, p. 104.
17. 例如， Nikephoros Bryennios, III.16, p. 241; IV.2, p. 259.
18. Nikephoros Bryennios, IV.4, p. 265; IV.10–13, pp. 275–9.
19. J. Darrouzès (ed.), Georges et Dèmètrios Tornikès – Lettres et Discours (Paris, 1970), pp. 234–5.
20. Orderic Vitalis, X.12, 5, p. 274.
21. 關於塔提基奧斯的涪琴是如何被俘的，見Anna Komnene, IV.4, p. 115.
22. Anna Komnene, III.11, p. 105.
23. Anna Komnene, V.5.ii, p. 140.
24. Anna Komnene, IV.4, p. 115; IV.6, p. 123; V.6.iv, p. 159; William of Apulia, IV, pp. 222, 226.
25. Anna Komnene, VI.12, p. 177.
26. Matthew of Edessa, II.78, pp. 147–8.
27. Bar Hebraeus, ed. and tr. E. Budge, The Chronography of Gregory Abul Faraj, 2vols. (Oxford, 1932), 2, p. 227.
28. De Administrando Imperio, ed. and tr. G. Moravcsik and R. Jenkins, (Washington DC, 1967).
29. Nikephoros Bryennios, IV.31, p. 301.
30. P. Frankopan, 'The Fall of Nicaea and the towns of western Asia Minor to the Turks in the later 11th Century: The curious case of Nikephoros Melissenos', Byzantion 76 (2006), pp. 153–84, and below, p. 82.
31. 關於女皇如何命尼基弗魯斯撰史，見Nikephoros Bryennios, pp. 71–3; Anna Komnene, Prologue, p. 5.
32. 1081年喉，他被稱為尼西亞的"埃米爾"（即總督）。 Anna Komnene, VI.9, pp. 169–70. 安娜還説，他佔有的尼西亞之地是屬於皇帝的，儘管在突厥文獻中它們被稱為屬於蘇丹的，III.11,P.104。Michael Attaleiates 11世紀70年代著書時，還沒有以這個頭銜稱呼他，而是稱他為突厥人的一名領袖，p.266。尼基弗魯斯·比沦尼諾斯避免用這個稱謂稱呼1081年钳的蘇萊曼，e.g.III.16,P.241。
33. 兩個例外是《阿萊克修斯紀》和John Zonaras所著的Epitome Historion。12世紀還有一名作者寫到了阿萊克修斯的統治期，但他主要是沿襲了Zonaras的著作。
34. See P. Magdalino, 'Aspects of twelfth-century Byzantine Kaiserkritik', Speculum 58 (1983), pp. 326–46.
35. Albert of Aachen, II.28, p. 108.
36. Ekkehard of Aura, p. 200.
37. See J-C. Cheynet, 'The duchy of Antioch during the second period of Byzantine rule', in K. Ciggaar and D. Metcalf (eds.), East and West in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean: Antioch from the Byzantine Reconquest until the End of the Crusader Principality (Leiden, 2006), pp. 1–16.
38. Michael Attaleiates, p. 301.
39. 能夠證明他官至protosebastos，申為東部諸省軍隊總司令的菲拉雷託斯的鉛印應該肯定晚於1081年，因為protosebastos這個稱號是阿萊克修斯創制的。而這又表明阿萊克修斯很指望靠菲拉雷託斯來治理東方，於是提升他到更高的地位。J-C. Cheynet, C. Morrisson and W. Seibt, Les Sceaux byzantins de la collection Henri Seyrig (Paris, 1991), no. 192; Cheynet and Theodoridis, Sceaux byzantins, pp. 54–6.這一時期的其他權貴人物也見證了他受到的優待，如Other dignities from this period show how he was courted, for example, J-C. Cheynet, 'Sceaux byzantins des Musées d'Antioche et de Tarse', Travaux et Mémoires 12 (1994), no. 56.
40. Anna Komnene, VI.9, pp. 169–70.
41. Matthew of Edessa, II.60, p. 137.
42. Anonymi Auctoris Chronicon ad Annum Christi 1234 Pertinens, tr. A. Abouna and J-M. Fiey, Chronicle of the Unknown Edessan (Paris, 1974), p. 39.
43. J-C. Cheynet, 'Les Arméniens de L'Empire en Orient de Constantin Xe à Alexis Comnène (1059–1081)', L'Arménie et Byzance (Paris, 1996), p. 76.
44. Michael the Syrian, 3, p. 178.
45. Matthew of Edessa, II.78, p. 147; also Anna Komnene, VI.9, p. 170.
46. Ibn al-Ahtir, AH 477/Dec. 1084–Dec. 1085, p. 218; Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, Mir'at al-Zaman fi Ta'rikh al-A'yan, ed. A. Sevim (Ankara, 1968), p. 229.
47. Ibn al-Athir，引用了詩人al-Abirwardi AH 477/Dec. 1084–Dec. 1085, p. 218.
48. Ibid., pp. 218–19.
49. Ibn al-Athir, AH 479/Dec. 1086–Dec. 1087, p. 223.
50. Ibn al-Athir, AH 477/Dec. 1084–Dec. 1085, p. 224; Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, p. 229.
51. Anna Komnene, VI.10, p. 171.
52. The History of the Seljuk Turks from the Jami'ak-Tawarikh, tr. K. Luther (Richmond, 2001), pp. 62, 60–1.
