Origins and Early Life
His father was a "Saracen", probably meaning a Turk, who was captured by Alexius' father John Comnenus and served as a slave in the Comnenus household. Tatikios and Alexius grew up together, and he is described as an oikogenes of Alexius (that is, "from the same house").
In 1078, before Alexius was emperor, he accompanied Alexius in battle against his rival Nicephorus Basilacius, and discovered Basilacius' plans for an ambush. When Alexius became emperor in 1081 he held the office of megas primikerios in the imperial household. Later that year he commanded the "Turks living around Ochrida", perhaps Hungarians at the Battle of Dyrrhachium against Robert Guiscard.
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