"...Nikephoros Monomach was half-bother to the ruling Emperor, and also held land in Trebizond. Like his brother, he was a great military leader, campaigning in Jerusalem, the Caucasus and in Syria. Like his brother, he often promoted favourites (even if few of them had the undeniable military and administrative ability like Alexander’s Salah Mansur and Grigorios Palaiologos) and held court where he was present rather than in Constantinople. Like his bother, he was eventually sainted. Still, there were important differences. Where for Alexander military glory was an end in itself, Nikephoros preferred to fight only if there was a good reason – and perhaps lacked the drive to force reluctant princes to war with the mighty Seljuks yet again during the Georgian campaign; where for Alexander p