Threatened by Bagrat, Alda defected to the Byzantines and surrendered Anakopia to the emperor Romanos III who honored her son Demetrius with the rank of magistros.

Liparit IV, of the Liparitid clan, the most powerful noble in Georgia, supported the rebellious prince and launched initially a successful campaign against Bagrat's army.

[3] Demetrius may also have had a daughter, Irene (died 1108), the official mistress of the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachus in the mid-1050s and then the wife of sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos.

[4] Anakopia, ceded by Alda and Demetrius to the emperor, would remain under the Byzantine sway until being recovered by Bagrat’s son and successor George II in 1074.

Profiting by the defeat of the Byzantines at the hands of the Seljukids, Georgia regained a number of key territories lost to the Empire in the course of the 11th century, including Anakopia as well as the fortresses located in the Thema of Iberia.