John Komnenos
Born in , Adrianos Komnenos was the fourth and second-to-last son (and seventh overall child) of the "domestikos ton scholon" John Komnenos, the younger brother of Emperor Isaac I Komnenos () and Anna Dalassene. According to the historian Nikephoros Bryennios, after John's death, Anna entrusted Adrianos and his younger brother Nikephoros to tutors, and gave them an encyclopedic education.