Career
Very little is known about his life. His is only recorded in the history of Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, who married his great-granddaughter Anna Komnene. On Alexios" career, Bryennios only reports that he "handled the emperor"s affairs" in the Byzantine provinces of southern Italy (the Catepanate of Italy) some time in the first half of the 11th century.
The exact office that Alexios held is unknown.
lieutenant has been suggested that he may have been the governor (catepan) of Italy, but his name appears in no other source.