[1] It is remarkable that in the next generation a member of the same family, Manuel, married the porphyrogenita princess Theodora Komnene, daughter of John II and his empress, Eirene of Hungary.
By this marriage John II may have been seeking to politically neutralise the threat of a potentially dangerous family.
He was certainly pursuing a policy of bringing 'new blood' into the imperial family and governing circles.
Though Anemas appears to have been a prominent soldier little information on his exploits has survived.
Manuel Anemas died in 1148; a funerary lament dated to Holy Week of that year by Prodromos, for "'Kyrios Manuel Anemas, the most fortunate son-in-law of the late basileus and autokrator of the Romans John the Purple-born", is extant.