While the Byzantine troops were assembling for the expedition, Alexios was approached by the Doukas faction at court, who convinced him to join a conspiracy against Nikephoros III.

During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.

By him she was the grandmother of Emperors Isaac II Angelos and Alexios III Angelos.

Alexios III Angelos was the second son of Andronikos Angelos and Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa.

At Christmas 1196, Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI attempted to force Alexios III to pay him a tribute of 5, 000 pounds ( later negotiated down to 1, 600 pounds ) of gold or face invasion.

Soon Alexios III was threatened by a new and yet more formidable danger.

Alexios III took no efficient measures to resist, and his attempts to bribe the crusaders failed.

Alexios III finally took action, and led 17 divisions from the St. Romanus Gate, vastly outnumbering the crusaders.

His courtiers demanded action, and Alexios III promised to fight.

Instead, that night ( July 17 / 18 ), Alexios III hid in the palace, and finally, with one of his daughters, Eirene, and such treasures ( 1, 000 pounds of gold ) as he could collect, got into a boat and escaped to Debeltos in Thrace, leaving his wife and his other daughters behind.

At first Alexios III received Alexios V well, even allowing him to marry his daughter Eudokia Angelina.

Here Alexios III eventually surrendered, with Euphrosyne, to Marquis Boniface of Montferrat, who was establishing himself as ruler of the Kingdom of Thessalonica.

Trying to escape Boniface's " protection ", Alexios III attempted to seek shelter with Michael I Komnenos Doukas, the ruler of Epirus, in 1205.

Here Alexios III conspired against his son-in-law after the latter refused to recognize Alexios ' authority, and received the support of Kay Khusrau I, the sultan of Rûm.

In the battle of Antioch on the Maeander in 1211, the sultan was defeated and killed, and Alexios III was captured by Theodore Laskaris.

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He had been married twice but was now allegedly the lover of Eudokia Angelina, a daughter of Emperor Alexios III Angelos.

His participation in the attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat in 1200 had caused him to be imprisoned until the accession of Isaac II Angelos, who was restored to the throne after having been deposed and imprisoned by his brother Alexios III, and his son Alexios IV Angelos, who were placed on the throne by the intervention of the Fourth Crusade in July 1203.

* 1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.

Thus Alexios Angelos was a member of the extended imperial family.

By 1190 Alexios Angelos had returned to the court of his younger brother, from whom he received the elevated title of sebastokratōr.

Alexios IV Angelos, the son of the deposed Isaac II, had recently escaped from Constantinople and now appealed to the crusaders, promising to end the schism of East and West, to pay for their transport, and to provide military support to the crusaders if they helped him to depose his uncle and sit on his father's throne.

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The refugees reached Mosynopolis, the base of the deposed emperor Alexios III Angelos, where they were initially well received, and Alexios V married Eudokia Angelina.

The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.

* Alexios III Angelos, Byzantine Emperor

Alexios II Komnenos or Alexius II Comnenus () ( 10 September 1169 – 24 September 1183, Constantinople ), Byzantine emperor ( 1180 – 1183 ), was the son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and Maria, daughter of Raymond, prince of Antioch.

Alexios IV Angelos ( or Alexius IV Angelus ) () ( c. 1182 – February 8, 1204 ) was Byzantine Emperor from August 1203 to January 1204.

The Treaty of Devol () was an agreement made in 1108 between Bohemond I of Antioch and Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, in the wake of the First Crusade.

Michael Panaretos () ( 1320 – c. 1390 ) wrote a chronicle of the Trapezuntine empire of Alexios I Komnenos and his successors from 1204 to 1426.

Alexios Fetsios () was a Greek shooter.

Together with his father and brothers, Alexios had conspired against Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos ( c. 1183 ), and thus he spent several years in exile in Muslim courts, including that of Saladin.

Captured by Boniface, Alexios and his retinue were sent to Montferrat, before being brought back to Thessalonica in c. 1209.

* Alexios Komnenos ( c. 1170 – 1199 ), an alleged forefather of the Georgian noble family of Andronikashvili.

* Eirene Komnene ( born c. 1169 ), who was briefly married to Alexios Komnenos, a son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos by Theodora Batatzina.

# Alexios Komnenos, megas doux, c. 1102 – c.

# Alexios Bryennios Komnenos, megas doux, c. 1102 – c.

* Alexios I of Trebizond ( c. 1182 – 1222 ), great-great-grandson of the above, Emperor of Trapezunt ( 1204 – 1222 )

* Alexios III Angelos ( Αλέξιος Γ ' Άγγελος ) ( c. 1153 – 1211 ) was Byzantine emperor from 1195 to 1203

* Alexios IV Angelos ( Αλέξιος Δ ' Άγγελος ) ( c. 1182 – February 8, 1204 ) was Byzantine Emperor from August 1203 to January 1204.

Manuel I Megas Komnenos ( Greek: Μανουήλ Α ΄ Μέγας Κομνηνός, Manouēl I Megas Komnēnos ) ( c. 1218 – March 1263 ), Emperor of Trebizond from 1238 to 1263, surnamed the " Great Captain ", was the second son of Alexios I, the first emperor of Trebizond, and Theodora Axuchina.

Euphrosyne married Alexios Angelos, the older brother of the future Emperor Isaac II Angelos in c. 1169.