Manuel was born in Pelagonia (Πελαγονíα), Makedonia, Greece, the son of unknown parents. The date is not known.
He died in 1020 in Byzantium (Βυζάντιον, Constantinople, Istanbul), Istanbul prov., Marmara, Turkey .
His wife is not known. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their four known children were Nikephorus (?-1026), Isaakios I (1007-1061), NN (c1012-1050) and Ioannes (c1015-1067).
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Note 1
Manuel Komnenos Erotikos, an officer of Emperor Basil II who in 978 defended Nicaea against Bardas Skleros, and one of his two wives, whose names are unknown, and who on his deathbed in 1020 commended his two surviving sons Isaakios and Ioannes to the emperor's care. Basil had them carefully educated at the monastery of Stoudion, and afterwards advanced them to high official positions. He also had an older son, Nikephoros, who died in 1026, and a daughter, born in 1012 and married around 1031 to Michael Dokeianos, Captain of Italy, deceased in 1050.